Abstract
Alphabetism and the science of reading: from the perspective of the akshara languages.
Highlights
Edited by: Claire Marie Fletcher-Flinn, University of Otago, New Zealand Reviewed by: Prakash Padakannaya, University of Mysore, India
Among the many ideas of relative goodness of writing systems is a misplaced superiority assigned to alphabet-based orthographies, which has been critically labeled as “alphabetism” (Share, 2014)
To illustrate with number names from the Indo-Aryan language of Hindi, the akshara in shunya follow the rule of re-syllabification with the second akshara formed by a coda-open syllable concatenation (शु य, “shu.nya,” the coda of the first syllable is pinned to the syllable to make the symbol block “nya”)
Summary
Edited by: Claire Marie Fletcher-Flinn, University of Otago, New Zealand Reviewed by: Prakash Padakannaya, University of Mysore, India. A commentary on Alphabetism in reading science by Share, D. An interesting area of enquiry in reading science is the ways in which different writing systems represent language.
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