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Has no mention of Indic writing systems.  The earliest syllabic writing is
given as "Linear B", an "early Greek" from 2nd mill BCE.  The chapters are:
Intro/Theoretical preliminaries / Earliest writing / A syllabic system:
Linear B / Consonantal writing / Graeco-Roman alphabet / A featural system:
Korean Hangul / A logographic system: Chinese writing / A mixed system:
Japanese / English spelling.  Devanagari and Brahmi never appear in the
index; Sanskrit appears once to tell how the Chinese had difficulty
transcribing the Sanskrit terms in Buddhism.