Download or read book Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages and Foreign Graphic Systems to a Uniform Orthography in European Letters written by Richard Lepsius and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Carl Richard Lepsius's Standard Alphabet reproduces the text of the second, enlarged, edition of 1863. The extensive Introduction by J. Alan Kemp places it in its historical setting and provides comments on the phonetic basis for the Alphabet and the notation.