title: Alphabetism and the science of reading: from the perspective of the akshara languages.
authors.affiliation: Early Childhood and Primary School Programmes, The Promise Foundation Bangalore, India ; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Sonali
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nag
keywords: akshara; alphasyllabary; cross-linguistic; hindi; orthographic processing