Endangered Alphabets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Endangered Alphabets write by Tim Brookes. This book was released on 2010. Endangered Alphabets available 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
An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets
An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets write by Tim Brookes. This book was released on 2024-08-29. An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets available 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.
Gone Wild
Gone Wild - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gone Wild write by David McLimans. This book was released on 2006-09-05. Gone Wild available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Endangered animals are drawn into uniquely crafted letters in this bold alphabet book that provides information on the habitat and class of these rare creatures and the threats facing them.
The Driveway Diaries
The Driveway Diaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Driveway Diaries write by Tim Brookes. This book was released on 2005. The Driveway Diaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Irresistably warm and wry observations by a migrant essayist from old England to New England.
The Prodigal Tongue
The Prodigal Tongue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prodigal Tongue write by Lynne Murphy. This book was released on 2018-04-10. The Prodigal Tongue available 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?
