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James, Gregory – 1985
Script reform, the modification of an existing writing system, is often confused with script replacement of one writing system with another. Turkish underwent the replacement of Arabic script by an adaptation of Roman script under Kamel Ataturk, but a similar replacement in Persian was rejected because of the high rate of existing literacy in…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Chinese, Diachronic Linguistics, Ideography
