Current (Writing) a writing system still in use today

Current is a term in Grammatology that commonly means "a writing system still in use today." (See also: ScriptSource Script Status Types). This term belongs mainly to the broader category called Writing.

Website definitions of Current

Source: ScriptSource (https://scriptsource.org)

"Script Status"

Current: scripts in use today, including artificial and liturgical scripts

SIL International Contributors, "ScriptSource: Script Status," accessed September 11, 2023, https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=entry_detail&uid=cq3q4pwuah. [Visit]

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Citation

MLA 8

PsychLing Contributors. "Current." PsychLing, OMNIKA Foundation, 18 Sep. 2023, psylng.org/glossary/term/current-script. Accessed 4 Oct. 2024.

APA 6

PsychLing (2023, September 18). Current. Retrieved from https://psylng.org/glossary/term/current-script

CMS 16

PsychLing Contributors. "Current." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created September 18, 2023. Modified September 18, 2023. Accessed October 4, 2024. https://psylng.org/glossary/term/current-script.

Bibliography

APA Dictionary

APA Contributors. "APA Dictionary of Psychology." Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Accessed September 14, 2023. https://dictionary.apa.org. [Visit]

DLP

Crystal, David, ed. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2011.

WM

Internet Archive Contributors. "Wayback Machine." San Francisco, CA: Internet Archive. Created October 24, 2001. Accessed July 21, 2023. https://web.archive.org. [Visit]

ScriptSource

SIL International Contributors. "ScriptSource: Index of Languages and Writing Systems." Dallas, TX: SIL International. Created June 11, 2011. Accessed July 28, 2023. https://scriptsource.org. [Visit]

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