Peter T. Daniels
Peter T. Daniels is a scholar of writing systems, specializing in the typology of writing systems. He was co-editor of the book The World's Writing Systems. He was a lecturer at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Chicago State University.
He received degrees in linguistics from Cornell University and the University of Chicago.
Daniels introduced two neologisms for categories of scripts, first published in 1990: abjad and abugida.