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Florian Coulmas. The Blackwell Encyclopedia for Writing Systems. Oxford: Blackwell. 1996. Pp. xxviii + 578. US$50.00 (hardcover).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

P.G. Patel
P.G. Patel*
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University of Ottawa
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 484 - 485
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1997

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