Peter T. Daniels

Peter T. Daniels (born December 11, 1951 ) is an American linguist .

Life

Daniels studied languages ​​at Cornell University and the University of Chicago . He has taught at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and Chicago State University and has been visiting professor on three continents. Today Daniels lives in New York and works for a book publisher.

Peter Daniels has specialized in the subject of writing. Since 1990 he has turned the term Abdschad , which comes from the Arabic counting tradition and stands for an alphabet sorting sequence, into the term for a certain, vowelless alphabet font (also Abugida ) in a series of publications , but has not gone unchallenged. Together with William Bright he is the editor of the extensive standard work The World's Writing Systems (German: The writing systems of the world ).

Fonts

• as translator and editor: Gotthelf Bergsträsser : Introduction to the Semitic Languages. Text Specimens and Grammatical Sketches. Translation with Notes and Bibliography and an Appendix on the Scripts. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake IN 1983, ISBN 0-931464-10-2 .
• as editor with William Bright: The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 1996, ISBN 0-19-507993-0 .
• as translator: Pierre Briant : From Cyrus to Alexander. A History of the Persian Empire. Translation of the work from into English. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake IN 2002, ISBN 1-57506-031-0 .