This is a handy reference to the main scripts and alphabets of the world.
Forty alphabets are presented and discussed, with entries ranging from the mainstream, such as Amharic, Chinese and Thai, to the more obscure.
Christopher Moseley is a linguist and lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. He is co-editor (with Prof. R.E.Asher) of the Atlas of the World's Languages (Routledge, 2007) and general editor of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010).
George L. Campbell worked for the BBC World Service and was a polyglot linguist and translator.