pt. 1. Grammatology. The study of writing systems
pt. 2. Ancient Near Eastern writing systems. The first civilizations
Mesopotamian cuneiform
Egyptian writing
The Meriotic script
Epigraphic Semitic scripts
The Iberian scripts
The Berber scripts
Anatolian hieroglyphs
Aegean scripts
Old Persian cuneiform
pt. 3. Decipherment. Methods of decipherment
The Proto-Elamite script
The Indus script
Maya and other Mesoamerican scripts
Rongorongo of Easter Island
pt. 4. East Asian writing systems. Early Chinese writing
Modern Chinese writing
Japanese writing
Korean writing
Siniform scripts of inner Asia : Tangut ; Kian and Jurchin
The Yi script
Asian calligraphy
Comparative table of Sinitic characters
pt. 5. European writing systems. Transmission of thee Phoenician script to the West
The Greek alphabet
The Anatolian alphabets
The Coptic alphabet
The Gothic alphabet
The scripts of Italy
The Roman alphabet
The Runic script
Ogham
The Slavic alphabets
The Armenian alphabet
The Georgian alphabet


pt. 6. South Asian writing systems. Brahmi and Kharoshthi
The Devanagari script
Gujarati writing
The Gurmukhi script
Bengali writing
Oriya writing
Sinhala writing
Kannada and Telugu writing
Malayalam writing
Tamil writing
The Tibetan script and derivatives
pt. 7. Southeast Asian writing systems. The spread of Brahmi script into Southeast Asia
Burmese writing
Thai and Lao writing
Khmer writing
Insular Southeast Asian scripts
pt. 8. Middle Eastern writing systems. The Jewish scripts
Aramaic scripts for Aramaic languages
Aramaic scripts for Iranian languages
Aramaic scripts for Altaic languages
Arabic writing
Dhivehi writing
Ethiopic writing
pt. 9. Scripts invented in modern times. The invention of writing
Cherokee writing
Scripts of West Africa
The Cree syllabary
Scripts for Munda languages
The Pahawh Hmong script


pt. 10. Use and adaptation of scripts. A functional classification
Adaptations of the Roman alphabet : Romance languages ; Germanic languages ; Celtic languages ; Languages of Eastern and Southern Europe ; African languages ; Vietnamese
Adaptations of the Cyrillic alphabet
Adaptations of Hebrew script
Adaptations of Arabic script
pt. 11. Sociolinguistics and scripts. Germany : script and politics
Serbo-Croatian : a biscriptal language
South Asia : coexistence of scripts Christian missionary activies
Script reform in and after the Soviet Union
pt. 12. Secondary notation systems. The alphabet as a technology
Numerical notation
Shorthand
Phonetic notation
Music notation
Movement notation systems
pt. 13. Imprinting and printing. Analog and digital writing.