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Author : Edward Hincks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : HARVARD:HX7BCN
Author : Edward Hincks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590488587
Author : Edward Hincks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10250437
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066634971
Author : Edward Hincks
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230397248
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ... the lesser evil, in a case where some evil was unavoidable; nor have I explained how, in applying to their use the Chaldean syllabary, they introduced into it polyphony which was not an original feature of that syllabary. I will now give these explanations. Allowing for the identity, as to their mode of being expressed, of s and n, and of i and a, an Assyrian syllable might have twenty different beginnings. To each of these three vowels might be added, giving sixty syllables consisting of a consonant followed by a vowel. Each of these would require a representative, and also the combination of each with b, g, d, kh, z, l, m, n, r, and s, as final letters in the syllable. The syllabary should thus contain 660 characters; and if some of these might be dispensed with, as of rare occurrence, there were several syllables of which it was desirable that there should be two representatives. There are, in point of fact, many pairs of homophones in the Assyrian syllabary. The reason why it was desirable is, that syllables which contained servile letters, --the preformatives p-'s for instance, might, it was thought, be advantageously distinguished from the same syllables when entirely radical. For instance, the last word in plate II. is a word in the first person plural, and begins with a character, which represents tii, or in this instance nanh (?l). The Assyrians, I believe, used the character for this sound under all circumstances; but the Babylonians were in the habit of substituting for it another character (fig. 24) when they wished to express rii, radical. Not long before this is a character which I have valued In in my transcription, which is exclusively used to express in, when the n was radical; another character, which begins plate 1.1...
Author : A. H. Sayce
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066425876
"The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions" by A. H. Sayce Sayce became interested in Middle Eastern languages and scripts while still a teenager. Old Persian and Akkadian cuneiform had recently been deciphered at the time and the world was interested in learning more about them. Sayce's book offered an easily-digestible guide.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : HARVARD:HN683K
Author : J. Cale Johnson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501502507
In the Wake of the Compendia examines the composition of technical literature in the ancient Semitic-speaking world. Compendia on astrology, magic, medicine, lexicography, and alchemy were composed in several languages and relate to earlier Mesopotamian models. This volume offers new perspectives on the early history of these compendia and their subsequent transmission into later post-cuneiform compilations, curricula, and scholarly writings.
Author : Peter T. Daniels,William Bright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1812 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433081860532
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092498694
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112119741368
Author : Jules Oppert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10250455
Author : Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Assyriology
ISBN : OXFORD:502412992
Author : Ida Miriam Bobula
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Hungarian language
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU58863508