The Atlas is now available in print form!
UK edition already out: https://www.amazon.co. uk/Atlas-Endangered-Alphabets- Tim-Brookes/dp/1529408245
US edition coming out in November! https://www.amazon.com/ Atlas-Endangered-Alphabets- Tim-Brookes/dp/1529408245
If something is important, we write it down. Yet 85% of the world’s writing systems are on the verge of vanishing — not granted official status, not taught in schools, discouraged and dismissed.
When a culture is forced to abandon its traditional script, everything it has written for hundreds of years — sacred texts, poems, personal correspondence, legal documents, the collective experience, wisdom and identity of a people — is lost.
This Atlas is about those writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them.
When a culture is forced to abandon its traditional script, everything it has written for hundreds of years — sacred texts, poems, personal correspondence, legal documents, the collective experience, wisdom and identity of a people — is lost.
This Atlas is about those writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them.