This course surveys the range of ways that different speech communities have materialized their language in writing: what, if anything, do they have in common? How different can writing systems get from each other? How have speakers of different languages invented means of capturing the subtle properties of their languages on paper (or papyrus, stone, clay, as tactile dots (as in Braille) etc.)? Can language X be written in the orthography of language Y? What are the cognitive and social consequences of creating a writing system for a language that previously was not written down? There are no prerequisites for the course, and early linguistics majors and minors are welcome to enroll in it as a Topics course.
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