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Author : Ayele Bekerie
Publisher : The Red Sea Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1569020213
A groundbreaking book about the history and principles of Ethiopic (Ge'ez), an African writing system designed as a meaningful and graphic representation of a wide range of knowledge.
Author : Saki Mafundikwa
Publisher : Mark Batty Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : African languages
ISBN : 0977282767
Due to popular demand for the first edition, Mark Batty Publisher proudly announces a reissue of this title in paperback. Because the book sets the record straight about how colonial powers suppressed the rich cultural and artistic histories of Afrikan alphabets, this title should appeal to individual readers as well as schools and universities. Both entertaining and anecdotal, Afrikan Alphabets presents a wealth of highly graphical, attractive and inspiring illustrations. Writing systems across the Afrikan continent and the Diaspora are analyzed and illustrated; syllabaries, paintings, pictographs, ideographs and symbols are compared and contrasted. This colourful, extensively illustrated and informative visual journey will be of interest to everyone seeking inspiration from, or more information about, Afrikan culture and art.
Author : Margaret Shepherd
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780823082308
Learn World Calligraphy has something for everyone. Whether you want scholarly insight, artistic inspiration, classroom projects, or a theme for your next party, this comprehensive, unparalleled full-color book will guide you on a virtual trip around the globe. Covering nearly all of the world’s writing systems—from African to Arabic, Chinese to Greek, Hebrew to Russian, and beyond—Learn World Calligraphy offers a unique glimpse of scripts worldwide and the calligraphers who write them. Lushly illustrated with gorgeous examples of both historical and modern calligraphic designs, this book is filled with practical instruction for how key aspects of each exotic script can be applied to the English alphabet, generating calligraphic hybrids with a distinctly foreign flair. Like a new cuisine that you can’t wait to cook at home, the scripts you meet in this book are sure to infuse your own calligraphy with the flavor of abroad. Bon voyage!
Author : Peter T. Daniels,William Bright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195079937
Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is the only available work in English to cover all of the world's writing systems from ancient times to the present. Describing scores of scripts in use now or in the past around the world, this unusually comprehensive reference offers a detailed exploration of the history and typology of writing systems. More than eighty articles by scholars from over a dozen countries explain and document how a vast array of writing systems work--how alphabets, ideograms, pictographs, and hieroglyphics convey meaning in graphic form. The work is organized in thirteen parts, each dealing with a particular group of writing systems defined historically, geographically, or conceptually. Arranged according to the chronological development of writing systems and their historical relationships within geographical areas, the scripts are divided into the following sections: the ancient Near East, East Asia, Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Additional parts address the ongoing process of decipherment of ancient writing systems; the adaptation of traditional scripts to new languages; new scripts invented in modern times; and graphic symbols for numerical, music, and movement notation. Each part begins with an introductory article providing the social and cultural context in which the group of writing systems was developed. Articles on individual scripts detail the historical origin of the writing system, its structure (with tables showing the forms of the written symbols), and its relationship to the phonology of the corresponding spoken language. Each writing system is illustrated by a passage of text, and accompanied by a romanized version, a phonetic transcription, and a modern English translation. A bibliography suggesting further reading concludes each entry. Matched by no other work in English, The World's Writing Systems is the only comprehensive resource covering every major writing system. Unparalleled in its scope and unique in its coverage of the way scripts relate to the languages they represent, this is a resource that anyone with an interest in language will want to own, and one that should be a part of every library's reference collection.
Author : John G. Jackson
Publisher : Black Classic Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1985-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0933121148
Author : M. Chahin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Armenia
ISBN : 0700714529
This book covers the history of Armenia from the most ancient literate peoples of Mesopotamia, who had commercial interests in the land of Armenia (c. 2500 BC), to the end of the Middle Ages.
Author : Meikal Mumin,Kees Versteegh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004256804
The Arabic script in Africa contains sixteen papers on the past and present use of Arabic script to write African languages. These writing traditions, which are sometimes collectively referred to as Ajami, are discussed for single or multiple languages, with examples from all major linguistic phyla of Africa but one (Khoisan), and from all geographic areas of Africa (North, West, Central, East, and South Africa), as well as a paper on the Ajami heritage in the Americas. The papers analyze (ethno-) historical, literary, (socio-) linguistic, and in particular grammatological aspects of these previously understudied writing traditions and exemplify their range and scope, providing new data for the comparative study of writing systems, literacy in Africa, and the history of (Islam in) Africa.
Author : Saki Mafundikwa
Publisher : Mark Batty Publisher
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015059227119
Through text and illustrations, describes more than twenty African symbol systems and alphabets used on the continent and in the Diaspora.
Author : Andrij Rovenchak,Jason Glavy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 0981829414
"Present edition is expanded to include six more scripts, in particular, a new region of Northeastern Africa (Sudan and adjacent lands) is described" -- Foreward.
Author : Alexander J. de Voogt,Irving L. Finkel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004174467
This exploration of the versatility of writing systems highlights their complexity when they are used to represent loanwords, solve problems of polysemy or when they are adapted to be used for another language. The approaches from different academic traditions provide a varied but expert account.
Author : Stuart C. Munro-Hay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015035774002
Author : B. Nyamnjoh,U. Nwosu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956551958
This book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs, especially with growing calls for the decolonisation of African curricula. The editors and contributors have chosen to reflect on the diverse ways of being and becoming African as a permanent work in progress by drawing inspiration from Chinua Achebe's harnessing of the effectualness of oratory, especially his use of proverbs in his works. The book recognises and celebrates the fact that Achebe's proverbial Igbo imaginations of being and becoming African are compelling because they are instructive about the lives, stories, struggles and aspirations of the rainbow of people that make up Africa as a veritable global arena of productive circulations, entanglements and compositeness of being. The contributions foray into how claims to and practices of being and becoming African are steeped in histories of mobilities and a myriad of encounters shaped by and inspiring of the competing and complementary logics of personhood and power that Africans have sought and seek to capture in their repertoires of proverbs. The task of documenting African proverbs and rendering them accessible in the form of a common hard currency with fascinating epistemological possibilities remains a challenge yearning for financial, scholarly, social and political attention. The book is an important contribution to John Mbiti's clarion call for an active and sustained interest in African proverbs.
Author : Monique Leslie Akassi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527520851
As the rich words from the African proverbs resonate into the twenty-first century regarding the importance of identity and telling the stories of people of African descent through the eyes of the people, the grand rhetorician and griot of the twentieth century Dr William Edward Burghardt Du Bois’s infamous problem remains so today – “the problem of the colour-line.” After the election of Barack Hussein Obama, the first African American president of the United States; after the Civil Rights Movement; after Brown versus the Board of Education; after the students’ right to their own language; after Plessy versus Ferguson; and the murders of innocent, young African American males, including Emmett Till, Timothy Thomas, Trayvon Martin, John Crawford III, Tamir Rice, Jordan Davis, Eric Garner, and Mike Brown, people of African descent are still battling with being labelled a “problem in one’s own country” while the USA continues to strive for a post-racial era. W.E.B. Du Bois’s rhetoric and motives in general are more relevant today than ever in reassessing what he so eloquently describes and unveils through the phrase “double consciousness” in Souls of Black Folk (1903), through which he reveals the feeling of a problem. This ground-breaking volume, featuring contributions from W.E.B. Du Bois’s great-grandson, Arthur McFarlane II, among others, is organized into three parts. Part I focuses on the foundation of Du Bois’s Africana Rhetoric through the origins of Africana Studies, Pan Africanism, and Africana Critical Theory. Part II focuses on Du Bois’s rhetorical strategies and rhetorical analyses in his scholarship and life. Part III focuses on gender and sexuality in Du Bois’s selected works. This work, the first of its kind devoted exclusively to Du Bois’s rhetoric and motives—can serve as a blueprint for today as the struggle toward a post racial society continues.
Author : Kassahun Weldemariam,Margareth Sandvik,Moges Yigezu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000985931
This edited volume explores how indigenous knowledges and practices can be instrumental in improving literacy outcomes and teacher development practices in Ethiopia, aiding children’s long-term reading, and learning outcomes. The chapters present research from a collaborative project between Ethiopia and Norway and demonstrate how students can be supported to think pragmatically, learn critically and be in possession of the citizenship skills necessary to thrive in a multilingual world. The authors celebrate multilingualism and bring indigenous traditions such as oracy, storytelling, folktales to the fore revealing their positive impact on educational attainment. Addressing issues of language diversity and systematic ignorance of indigenous literacy practices, the book plays a necessary role in introducing Ethiopia’s cultural heritage to the West and, hence, bridges the cultural gaps between the global north and global south. Arguably contributing one of the first publications on early literacy in Ethiopian languages, this book will appeal to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students studying the fields of early years literacy and language, indigenous knowledge and applied linguistics more broadly.
Author : Aaron Butts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004300156
This volume contains twenty case studies analysing various aspects of language contact involving ancient and modern Semitic languages.