Palæografi (skrifthistorie)

Der Althistoriker und Paläograph Victor Gardthausen (1843 - 1925), bekannt v. a. für seine umfangreiche Augustus-Biographie, legt hier ein zweibändiges Grundlagenwerk zur griechischen Paläographie vor.Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1879.

Parler une langue étrangère est une bonne surtout celle d'Haiti. Ce pays qui a fait l'histoire du monde avec une indépendance d'une importance spectaculaire. Cette langue, le créple haitien, vous permettrra d'aborder un haitien plus facilement par son souci de s'ouvrir sur le monde entier. "Jiskaske ou konprann nèt, toujou pran yon grenn mo epi mete'l nan tèt ou".

The Riddle of the Labyrinth is the true story of the quest to solve one of the most mesmerizing linguistic riddles in history and of the three brilliant, obsessed, and ultimately doomed investigators whose combined work would eventually crack the code. An award?winning journalist trained as a linguist, Margalit Fox not only takes readers step-by-step through the forensic process involved in cracking an ancient secret code, she restores one of the primary investigators, Alice Kober, to her rightful place in what is one of the most remarkable intellectual detective stories of all time.

Der klassische Philologe und Sanskrit-Forscher Carl Cappeller (1842 - 1925) beherrschte das klassische Sanskrit so perfekt, dass er Sprüche deutscher und griechischer Dichter ins Sanskrit übertragen konnte. Sein hier vorliegendes Sanskrit-Wörterbuch war für die Sanskritforschung besonders verdienstvoll.Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1887.

"Forget the old rote memorization method and learn Chinese the fun and easy way! Chinese is the oldest continuously-used writing system in the world, and also one of the most complicated. Written Chinese Made Easy presents the 1,000 most common characters and associates each one with a visual and verbal clue to help you remember it. By associating a character's meaning with a simple sketch, learners develop an additional layer of context. Presented in groups or clusters that share common elements and meanings, the characters become easy to distinguish from one another. Highly visual, this book is a powerful language learning tool for serious students as well as general readers who wish to understand the Chinese writing system."--Amazon.com.

As well as its obvious visual appeal, China's millennia-old writing system is a carrier of the nation's culture and identity. In this book, Xu Hui selects and explains the 100 most traditional Chinese characters with the help of eye-catching illustrations that bring their meanings alive, and historic tracings through seal script all the way back to ancient oracle bone carvings. For novices and experts alike, this translation by Julie Loo offers English readers a compelling insight into the world of written Chinese.

As well as its obvious visual appeal, China's millennia-old writing system is a carrier of the nation's culture and identity. In this book, Xu Hui selects and explains the 100 most interesting Chinese characters with the help of eye-catching illustrations that bring their meanings alive, and historic tracings through seal script all the way back to ancient oracle bone carvings. For novices and experts alike, this translation by Julie Loo offers English readers a compelling insight into the world of written Chinese.

This book presents the first comprehensive overview of national laws recognising sign languages, their impacts and the advocacy campaigns which led to their creation. Each chapter is grounded in a collaborative writing approach between deaf and hearing scholars and activists involved in legislative campaigns.

The palaeography of the first Slavic script - the Glagolitic script - is being published in English language for the first time. Unlike former historiography-based palaeographic textbooks, this study is linguistically substantiated. After presenting the elemental historical and philological knowledge on the creation of the script and its relation to the parallel Slavic script - the Cyrillic - the author goes on to distinguish the development of those linguistically-based segments (e.g. graphemes) from the means that optimize the transfer of linguistic message through the visual writing system. The evolution of letter forms is being observed in the long process of minusculization. The coordination of letters in lines and the readjusting of their forms to the four line system turned out to be the 'spiritus movens' of the changes not only in the letter forms but in the script's entire visual appearance as well. At the focus of interest, there are the oldest Macedonian, Bulgarian, Czech and Croatian Glagolitic texts of the 10th and the 11th century.

Alting begynder med A er noget så usædvanligt som en Alfabet-bog for større børn (og deres voksne), der har lært at læse, og kan gennemskue og sætte pris på fx portrættet af E:”E har et ego på størrelse med en elefant. E ligger nemlig nummer et på bogstav-hitlisten. E har brugt sine effektive metoder. Engang hed hest Hæst og fest Fæst, men det fik E ellers lige lavet om på. Hvis man hører godt efter, kan man stadig høre ekkoet efter det stækkede æ.”Fabulerende bogstavs- og sprogbegejstring begået af Betina Birkjær, diskret-drilsk illustreret af Stine Illum. Værsgo!