Palaeography

Quickly learn how to read and write Persian-Farsi with this user-friendly guide!

Contemporary Japanese is a textbook series for beginning students of Japanese at the college or high school level.

Minglang Zhou's highly erudite and well-researched volume on the policies concerning writing reforms for China's minorities since 1949 provides an original and well-reasoned summary of a complex process.

A complete beginning-level course for spoken Mandarin Chinese designed to have you talking quickly and accurately!

If you've mastered the basics of Japanese grammar and are ready to move to the next level, this book is for you!

This comprehensive Chinese character workbook can be used with any textbook or on its own to dramatically enhance your Mandarin reading and writing skills!

Reveals the esoteric mysteries encoded in the order of the alphabet*; Explores the secrets hidden in our alphabet and how each letter represented a specific stage on the alchemical path toward enlightenment*; Divides our alphabet's sequence of letters into three distinct parts: the first representing Earth and the natural year, the second the Underworld and the hero's journey, and the third the Heavens and astronomical cycles*; Reveals how the ancient secrets encoded in the numerical order of the alphabet can be found in Mystery Traditions and divination systems throughout the worldOur alphabet hides a Mystery older than its magic of turning sound into shapes.

Reinforce your written Chinese with this practice book for the best-selling Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters.

The Book of Revelation is a disorienting work, full of beasts, heavenly journeys, holy war, the End of the Age, and the New Jerusalem.

How does a country find itself 'at war' over spelling?

In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space.

Learn the essential Mandarin Chinese characters and words in everyday use in China!

Learn the Mandarin Chinese characters and words in everyday use in China!

This book-length meditation on the Hebrew alphabet offers profound insights into many important ideas found in Jewish thought.

Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact.

The bibliography offers information on research about writing and written language over the past 50 years.

This book provides an introduction to the Meroitic language and writing system.

This volume presents a series of reflections on modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean, drawing on papers presented at two round table workshops of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology on ‘Technologies of Representation’ and ‘Writing and Non-Writing in the Bronze Age Aegean’.

Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation efforts.

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Die Aufzeichnung des zeitlich-dynamischen Verlaufs der Wortschreibung erweitert aktuelle psycho- und neurolinguistische Modelle der schriftlichen Wortproduktion um den Prozessaspekt und trägt in erheblichem Umfang dazu bei, Rückschlüsse auf die beteiligten kognitiven Prozesse sowie deren Ablauf und Interaktion zu ziehen.

This is a comprehensive and user-friendly elementary level Hindi textbook and language learning package.

This book explores how Latin inscriptions were used in the Roman world and makes them accessible to students today.

The perfect book for beginners to learn all the basics of Vietnamese!

The first systematic, comprehensive description of the evolution of Greek at the crucial transitional stage from medieval to modern.

Learn to speak, read and write Japanese quickly using manga comics strips!

The first comprehensive study of how the phonology and grammar of ancient Egyptian changed over four millennia of language history.

Korean Grammar: The Complete Guide to Speaking Korean Naturally covers all the basic sentence structures, verbal forms and idiomatic expressions taught in the first two years of a college level Korean language course.

'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away.

In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space.