Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Alphabets & Writing Systems

This book introduces the Arabic alphabets to children age 3 - 7. Non-Arabic-speaking children may benefit from the pronunciation and translation for each letter/word. The child learns how to write each letter by first tracing and then writing the letter on his/her own. A coloring activity with each letter allows the child to have fun while learning how to write.

Many students of Japanese find learning kanji to be the hardest part of mastering the language. Not just the characters themselves, but also how they are used, seems quite complicated and mysterious. This book is designed to clear up that mystery, giving the kanji learner insight into what is really going on with the characters, and most importantly, building a solid foundation for learning that makes mastering thousands of characters not seem like an impossible task. The book thoroughly covers important topics such as how the characters are constructed and how they are used in the writing of...

Linear A Decipherment cracks the code of the written language of Minoan Crete. The breakthrough came from recognizing a single word, tulos, meaning 'comes to' in Finnish at the end of a list of accounting figures. Because of all the work done in a similar script called Linear B, the complete decipherment of the basic syllabary was accomplished in one evening. The details, however, took three years because of having to learn how to read a syllabary and simultaneously constructing a matching dictionary with tens of thousands of words. As everyone hoped, the translations led to the...

For the first time, Decipherment of Pictish Ogham translates Pictish Ogham, an alphabetic script derived from Irish Ogham. These texts add life and meaning to lavish Symbol Stones recovered from grave sites throughout Scotland, whose ogham inscriptions describe an aspect of the deceased. Pictish inscriptions do not follow the Latin formula 'XXX son of YYY'; instead they sound like quotations or ruminations from someone at the funeral or preparing for the funeral. They can be lauditory or deprecating, expecially if the deceased was responsible for losing a battle. The breakthrough to...

For the first time, Old European Decipherment cracks the code of the oldest of all writing systems that Marija Gimbutas called Old European. She traced it back 35,000 years, while new finds extend that to 400,000 years and possibly 600,000. In all that time, the writing never changed. Decipherment was made by possible by analyzing two hundred bilingual inscriptions called Owner's Marks that employ the same syllabary. The result is a stunning tour around the world of what our ancestors thought about - disease, sex, death, marriage, hunting, inheritance. It provides a rock-solid syllabary and...

Discover, the sacred Greek Alphabet. Each of the 24 letters links to cosmic energies. Color the powerful letters and feel the magic of the ancient Greek world. Have fun above all...

Publisher John Koehler and executive editor Joe Coccaro share 100 golden nuggets of wisdom that help answer the many reoccurring questions that authors have.

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Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. What rights do minority communities have concerning their languages? How does each language conceptualize the world differently? How much knowledge about the world and a local ecosystem is lost when a language disappears? What is the process involved and how can insights about this process contribute to linguistic theory? What typological insights will be lost if undescribed languages disappear before their unique structural properties are known? How can language shift be stopped or reversed?
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The Materiality and Efficacy of Balinese Letters examines traditional uses of writing on the Indonesian island of Bali, focusing on the power attributed to Balinese script.The approach is interdisciplinary and comparative, bringing together insights from anthropological and philological perspectives. Scholars have long recognized a gap between the practices of philological interpretation and those of the Javano-Balinese textual tradition. The question is what impact this gap should have on our conception of 'the text'. Of what relevance, for example, are the uses to which Balinese...

This book examines the epistemological assumptions about language and writing that were persistent throughout the course of imperial Chinese history (with an emphasis on the Han dynasty, when the core theories were established) and critically compares them to the history of European discourse on the abstract notion of ideography (from Plato to Champollion).

This is a copybook printed in black and white for adults who wish to learn how to write the Tibetan script in the Uchen, Tsuring or Chuyig style.

Uchen is a printed script used throughout Tibet. As a handwritten script it is mostly prevalent in Amdo and Kham, the regions in north-eastern and eastern Tibet. Central Tibet (U-Tsang), on the other hand, prefers Ume handwriting styles, which include Tsuring and Chuyig. People first learn to write in the Tsuring style, for example, before progressing to the Chuyig shorthand style once they have sufficient writing...

This is a book full of fun, joy, with a grain of humor, yet didactic. The book approaches the teaching of the ABC in a different way. You will find every letter with an illustration of an animal whose name starts with that letter, but all the animals wear zebra costumes. The family of the "zebra" letters will spark the interest of young children while exposing them to the letters. At the end of the book you will find a summary of all the letters, where you can review them again.

Practice the ABCs by pronouncing the name of an animal that starts with that letter. On each page you will find an animal, and the first letter of it's name. The letter is presented in different styles (fonts) so the child will be exposed to many additional ways in which each letter can be written. The letters have different sizes and colors, so if you read the book with your child you can compare which letter is bigger or smaller, name the different color and hues, using that platform to practice adverbs. At the end of the book there is a summary of all the letters so you can review them...

Color the Alphabet is an A-Z Coloring Book for grown-ups that includes all 26 letters of the alphabet in detailed coloring pages.

It contains 40 pages of unique artwork:

• 26 full size coloring pages, each containing a single letter from A-Z
• 26 half size designs over 13 coloring pages. Each page includes 2 designs with a letter each from A-Z. All but a few designs are different to the full size designs.
• 1 bonus coloring page with a mix of letters hidden in the design.

26 full size coloring pages
Each page...