This book is an account of the writing systems of the world from earliest times to the present. Its aim is to explore th
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Africa has become recognized as the continent where man and language originated. In this book we explain that Africans h
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Visible Speech is an attempt to set the record straight about the nature of writing. John DeFrancis, a noted specialist
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