Download or read book Lost Languages from the Mediterranean written by Jan G. P. Best and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Languages from the Mediterranean written by Best and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1989-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Extinct Languages written by Johannes Friedrich and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Extinct Languages of Europe written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 86. Chapters: Italic languages, Etruscan language, Old Prussian language, Pomeranian language, Old Church Slavonic, Anatolian languages, Dalmatian language, Russenorsk, Ancient Macedonian language, Dacian language, Iberian language, List of reconstructed Dacian words, Scythian languages, Aquitanian language, Yola language, Pan-Illyrian theories, Galwegian Gaelic, Paleohispanic scripts, Thracian language, Livonian language, Languages of Spain, Tartessian language, Bulgar language, Hunnic language, Lepontic language, Ligurian, Lusitanian language, Venetic language, Old Novgorod dialect, Bohemian Romani, Kemi Sami language, South Picene language, Andalusian Arabic, North Picene language, Akkala Sami language, Liburnian language, Khazar language, Lemnian language, Guanche language, Eteocypriot language, Languages of Iberia, Modern Gutnish, Raetic language, Eteocretan language, Languages of Portugal, Judaeo-Portuguese, Mediterranean Lingua Franca, Historic Colognian, Masurian dialect, Auregnais, East Germanic languages, Basque-Icelandic pidgin, Belagines, Camunic language, Belgian language, Paeonian language, Paleohispanic languages, Yevanic language, Merya language, Shirvani Arabic, Paleo-Balkan languages, Cuman language, Muromian language, Espanca script, Old Tatar language, Sicel language, Meshcherian language, Drevani, Jassic dialect, Solombala-English, Klezmer-loshn, Pecheneg language, Laiuse Romani language, Viktors Bertholds, Mysian language, Armeno-Kipchak dialect, Masovian language, Iazychie.
Download or read book Extinct Languages written by Johannes Friedrich and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted linguist examines extinct languages, from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the mysteries of as-yet undeciphered writings, in this scholarly work. While certain ancient languages were passed down continuously through the ages, many others were ignored for centuries. When scholars began to decipher these extinct languages in the early nineteenth century, they uncovered previously inaccessible riches of knowledge and history. Yet much work remains to be done on undeciphered scripts that continue to tantalize and perplex us today. In Extinct Languages, linguist Johannes Friedrich guides readers through the fascinating world of recovered systems of writing, including Egyptian and Hittite hieroglyphs, Babylonian cuneiform, and others. He also explains the methodology and principles behind the deciphering process that will one day crack ancient mysteries such as the Indus Valley script.
Download or read book Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean written by J. E. Wansborough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this study is the language of commerce and diplomacy during the period from 1500 BCE to 1500 CE. Based on texts of chancery provenance, its aim is the identification of a linguistic sub-system that effected and informed the major channel of international relations. The standard procedures of contact and exchange generated a format that facilitated inter-lingual transfer of concepts and terms. Lingua Franca refers to the several natural languages that served as vehicle in the transfer, but also to the format itself.
Download or read book Lost Languages written by Philip E. Cleator and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wonders of Language written by Ian Roberts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Roberts offers a stimulating introduction to our greatest gift as a species: our capacity for articulate language. We are mostly as blissfully unaware of the intricacies of the structure of language as fish are of the water they swim in. We live in a mental ocean of nouns, verbs, quantifiers, morphemes, vowels and other rich, strange and deeply fascinating linguistic objects. This book introduces the reader to this amazing world. Offering a thought-provoking and accessible introduction to the main discoveries and theories about language, the book is aimed at general readers and undergraduates who are curious about linguistics and language. Written in a lively and direct style, technical terms are carefully introduced and explained and the book includes a full glossary. The book covers all the central areas of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, as well as historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics.
Download or read book How Dead Languages Work written by Coulter H. George and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have different personalities, and this is especially clear with languages of the ancient and medieval world. This volume celebrates six such languages - Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew - by first introducing readers to their most distinctive features, then showing how these linguistic traits play out in short excerpts from actual ancient texts. It explores, for instance, how Homer's Greek shows signs of oral composition, how Horace achieves striking poetic effects through interlaced word order in his Latin, and how the poet of Beowulf attains remarkable intensity of expression through the resources of Old English. But these are languages that have shared connections as well. Readers will see how the Sanskrit of the Rig Veda uses words that come from roots found also in English, how turns of phrase characteristic of the Hebrew Bible found their way into English, and that even as unusual a language as Old Irish still builds on common Indo-European linguistic patterns. Very few people have the opportunity to learn these languages, and they can often seem mysterious and inaccessible: drawing on a lucid and engaging writing style and with the aid of clear English translations throughout, this book aims to give all readers, whether scholars, students, or interested novices, an aesthetic appreciation of just how rich and varied they are.
Download or read book Lost Languages written by Philip Ellaby Cleator and published by Signet. This book was released on 1966 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Languages written by Philip Ellaby Cleator and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the deciphering of ancient writings.
Download or read book Migration Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean written by James Clackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses epigraphic and linguistic evidence to track movements of people around the ancient Mediterranean.
Download or read book Allogl ssoi written by Albio Cesare Cassio and published by de Gruyter. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies presented in this volume deal with numerous and often undervalued aspects of multilingualism in Ancient Europe and the Mediterranean. Primarily, but not exclusively, they explore the impact of the great transnational languages, Greek and Latin, on numerous indigenous languages: the latter mostly disappeared apart from a number of written texts, often not well comprehensible, but at the same time provided the dominant languages with loanwords, some of them destined to enduring success. Moreover, Greek and Latin were remarkably affected by their mutual contact, with the complication that Greek was notoriously far from monolithic, and in some areas its different dialects intermingled with each other and with the local languages. The case studies of this volume were conducted in the frame of a European HERA research on Multilingualism and Minority Languages in Ancient Europe, which covered a number of very diverse areas, with an emphasis on Sicily and Southern Italy, Illyria, Epirus, Macedonia, Thrace, Egypt and Asia Minor (also in medieval and modern times). This book makes indispensable reading for anyone with an interest in multilingualism and language contact in Ancient Europe.
Download or read book Lost Languages written by Dina Anastasio and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How did people discover the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics and a lost Mayan language? Will anyone be able to figure out what is written on stone seals that were found in the Indus Valley? Many cultures left behind fragments of writing. How do people unlock the meaning of these lost languages?"--
Download or read book Lost Languages written by Andrew Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates famous examples of unsolved scripts and codes, in an account that recalls the stories of three forefront decipherments including the Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Maya glyphs, and the Minoan Linear B clay tablets.
Download or read book Lost Languages written by Andrew Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undeciphered scripts have long tantalized the public, whether it's the possibility of hearing the voices of ancient peoples or the puzzle solver's taste for the challenges posed by breaking codes. Here, Andrew Robinson investigates the most famous examples, beginning with the stories of three great decipherments: Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and the Minoan Linear B clay tablets. He then covers the important scripts that have yet to be cracked, such as the Etruscan alphabet and Rongorongo from Easter Island.
Download or read book Mediterranean Language Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
