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| Author | : Tim Brookes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Alphabet in art |
| ISBN | : 9780984196777 |
Download Endangered Alphabets Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The world has more than 6,000 languages, but those languages are written in fewer than 100 alphabets--more than a third of which are endangered. Oddly gnarly or staggeringly beautiful, all of them embody the history and intellectual achievements of their cultures. Some are now used only in ceremonial documents, some in magic spells, some in secret love letters. In this groundbreaking project, author Tim Brookes has carved thirteen of these endangered alphabets into stunning boards of Vermont maple, using as his text Article One of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 'All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.' This book is both the catalogue for that exhibition and an essay on writing from a unique perspective--that of a writer who is discovering new forms of writing by carving them before they vanish."--cover, p.4
| Author | : Saki Mafundikwa |
| Publisher | : Mark Batty Publisher |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : African languages |
| ISBN | : 9780977282760 |
Download Afrikan Alphabets Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Tim Brookes |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2024-08-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1529408253 |
Download An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them. If something is important, we write it down. Yet 85% of the world's writing systems are on the verge of vanishing - not granted official status, not taught in schools, discouraged and dismissed. When a culture is forced to abandon its traditional script, everything it has written for hundreds of years - sacred texts, poems, personal correspondence, legal documents, the collective experience, wisdom and identity of a people - is lost. This Atlas is about those writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them. From the ancient holy alphabets of the Middle East, now used only by tiny sects, to newly created African alphabets designed to keep cultural traditions alive in the twenty-first century: from a Sudanese script based on the ownership marks traditionally branded into camels, to a secret system used in one corner of China exclusively by women to record the songs and stories of their inner selves: this unique book profiles dozens of scripts and the cultures they encapsulate, offering glimpses of worlds unknown to us - and ways of saving them from vanishing entirely.
| Author | : Tim Brookes |
| Publisher | : Turtle Point Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Download The Driveway Diaries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Irresistably warm and wry observations by a migrant essayist from old England to New England.
| Author | : Peter Austin |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Language and languages |
| ISBN | : 9780520255609 |
Download One Thousand Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents an overview of the living, endangered, and extinct languages of the world, providing the total number of speakers of the language, its history, and maps of the geographic areas where it is presently spoken or where it was spoken in the past.
| Author | : Justyna Olko |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-01-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 110862443X |
Download Revitalizing Endangered Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Of the approximately 7,000 languages in the world, at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of the twenty-first century. Languages are endangered by a number of factors, including globalization, education policies, and the political, economic and cultural marginalization of minority groups. This guidebook provides ideas and strategies, as well as some background, to help with the effective revitalization of endangered languages. It covers a broad scope of themes including effective planning, benefits, wellbeing, economic aspects, attitudes and ideologies. The chapter authors have hands-on experience of language revitalization in many countries around the world, and each chapter includes a wealth of examples, such as case studies from specific languages and language areas. Clearly and accessibly written, it is suitable for non-specialists as well as academic researchers and students interested in language revitalization. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
| Author | : Lynne Murphy |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2018-04-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1524704881 |
Download The Prodigal Tongue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
CHOSEN BY THE ECONOMIST AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An American linguist teaching in England explores the sibling rivalry between British and American English “English accents are the sexiest.” “Americans have ruined the English language.” Such claims about the English language are often repeated but rarely examined. Professor Lynne Murphy is on the linguistic front line. In The Prodigal Tongue she explores the fiction and reality of the special relationship between British and American English. By examining the causes and symptoms of American Verbal Inferiority Complex and its flipside, British Verbal Superiority Complex, Murphy unravels the prejudices, stereotypes and insecurities that shape our attitudes to our own language. With great humo(u)r and new insights, Lynne Murphy looks at the social, political and linguistic forces that have driven American and British English in different directions: how Americans got from centre to center, why British accents are growing away from American ones, and what different things we mean when we say estate, frown, or middle class. Is anyone winning this war of the words? Will Yanks and Brits ever really understand each other?
| Author | : Tim Brookes |
| Publisher | : Grove Press |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780802142580 |
Download Guitar: an American life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reunion is the awkward, tender meeting between a father and daughter after nearly twenty years separation. Dark Pony is the telling of a mythical story by a father to his young daughter as they drive home in the evening.
| Author | : Tim Brookes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2016-09-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780984196760 |
Download Endangered Alphabets Second Edition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since its first exhibition in 2010, Tim Brookes' art/woodwork/design/calligraphy/language/anthropology creation, the Endangered Alphabets Project, has been exhibited all over North America, including displays and talks at Harvard, Yale, and the Smithsonian.It has also added a new dimension to the important work being conducted by the endangered languages movement: the Endangered Alphabets raise the question of what happens when a culture loses, or is forbidden, the way of writing it created, and which expresses its history and identity?This groundbreaking endeavor--Brookes coined the term "endangered alphabets"--is now followed all over the world. This expanded second edition tells the story of how the Endangered Alphabets were born, how they grew, the questions the project raised and continues to raise, and why it is vital to protect and preserve minority cultures everywhere.
| Author | : Philippa M. Steele |
| Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2019-10-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1789250951 |
Download Understanding Relations Between Scripts II Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets is the first volume in this series, bringing together ten experts on ancient writing, languages and archaeology to present a set of diverse studies on the early development of alphabetic writing systems and their spread across the Levant and Mediterranean during the second and first millennia BC. By taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it sheds new light on alphabetic writing not just as a tool for recording language but also as an element of culture.
