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Persian poets since Rūdakī have drawn on the letter symbolism of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. Visually, its characters have attracted poets who find the likeness of the beloved in their shapes. Spiritually, it enjoys a special status as the... more
Abstract. Visibly pushdown automata are special pushdown automata whose stack behavior is driven by the input symbols according to a partition of the alphabet. We show that it is decidable for a given visibly pushdown automaton whether it... more
We are in the middle of a perfect storm that has brought together the chaos and disruption of the Digital Age, the final stages of the Only Money Matters Cycle, and all three variations of Spiral Dynamics' Large-Scale change. This paper... more
We can approach the knowledge of the city from multiple ways. We think that urban typography is a very attractive element to know the cities. In this article vindicates typography as an educational value, which allows also a better... more
Partant de l’histoire de l’alphabet latin, qui est la base de tant d’alphabets aujourd’hui, nous allons décrire les enjeux des normalisations par l’écriture. 1 : Du grec au latin. 2 : Les variétés d’alphabet grec et leur origine. 3 : Le... more
Turkic peoples have used several alphabets throughout the history. It may be claimed that there is hardly any language that is written in such various alphabets. In this paper, the issue of alphabet in general and the alphabets used by... more
Basic character-set of the Tulu-Tigalari script.
ÇERKESLERİN ALFABE GİRİŞİMLERİNİN KISA TARİHİ VE GÜNÜMÜZ ÇERKES ALFABELERİ
Abstract and Book Reviews Abstract: This publication details how (copying) and when well before 3200 years ago) the Western Alphabet character sequence (abecedary) was modeled after a pre-Sanskrit character grid (abugida). By... more
This paper discusses the relation between letters and numbers in the case of ancient Greek and other writing systems and supports that the use of letters of the alphabet (and so the writing of the language) was constrained by the... more
The non-impact of the alphabet has garnered a lot of attention recently: how could an invention so revolutionary do so little? Researchers have been led to wonder whether the alphabet may not have been as revolutionary as had been... more
Alphabet Reform is a cornerstone in the political and cultural history of Turkey. In the process of “modernization/westernization”, discussions on alphabet improvement and modification were the current subject in both Ottoman Empire and... more
Four inscribed clay cylinders were discovered at the archaeological site of Tell Umm el-Marra in the 2004 excavation season, in a secure tomb context, and with associated carbon remains which have been carbon dated. The signs on these... more
The Proto-Indo-European words for the cardinal numbers are believed to be related to fingers, we see some similarities between the first letters of these words in an Indo-European language and the Hindu–Arabic numerals, it seems to be... more
The subject of the First Edition of The Alphabet and the Ancient Calendar Signs regards the origins of the earliest Western alphabets and their relationship to the Chinese lunar calendar and horary signs. Dr. Moran focused his attention... more
Questo contributo si pone lo scopo di sottoporre agli studiosi di paleo- ispanistica e del mondo italico preromano una proposta di connessione alfabetica non ancora messa in luce: quella tra il mondo italico centro- orientale, dell’area... more
The existence of Akkadian in the Mediterranean is due to the commercial trade which developed during the Bronze Age. Such trade required a common written language in order to function. Translations of archaeological texts using the strict... more
The paper provides new data for the presence of Jews from Rus’ in medieval England and contextualizes this presence based on the evidence of contacts between England and Rus’, as well as on the known patterns of Jewish migration between... more
Addressing issues of origin in archaic alphabetic writing A multitude of questions and corresponding number of theories have been offered on the origin of our writing system, the alphabet. We have considered in detail the question of the... more
This chapter is divided into five sections. The first section reviews attempts in the last decade of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first--at conferences, workshops, and in publications--to define “Jewish rhetoric,”... more
The Ottoman Empire faced mass land losses in the Balkans especially in the 19th century. Newly established nation states were not tolerant towards Muslim and Turkish population who had been living the region for more than 5 centuries. One... more
ABSTRACT “Mela Mehmudi Bazidi’s Sefhei Sibyan” The introduced manuscript -wich apparently is belonged to Mela Mahmoudi Bazidi- “Sefhei Sibyan” is located in Auguste Alexandre Jaba collection with number of Kurd06. The work is in the form... more
The Greek equivalent of the Bulgarian “Shliokavitsa”, called Greeklish, is Greek language written with the Latin alphabet. The phenomenon refers to ad-hoc practices of writing Greek text in different informal environments, especially in... more
The recently published 12th century B.C.E. jar inscription from Lachish was described as "undecipherable." This article offers a plausible interpretation suggesting a mixed inscription using linear alphabetic and an adaptation of the... more
We examined the developmental sequence of letter name knowledge acquisition by children from 2 to five years of age. Data from 2 samples representing diverse regions, ethnicity, and socioeconomic backgrounds (ns = 1074 and 500) were... more
Print version available. Please email wimjborsboom@gmail.com A collection of essays, conversations and ruminations on: (1) 'Innate Freedom' and the reclamation of it, if seemingly lost. (2) Identity, ego and pseudo-self, (3)... more
Fahri KILIÇ ÖZ Yeni Türk harflerinin kabulü hakkındaki kanun, TBBM'de kabul edilmesinin ve Cumhurbaşkanı Mustafa Kemal Paşa'nın onaylamasının ardından Resmi Gazete'de yayımlanarak yürürlüğe girmiştir. Yasanın yürürlüğe girmesinden... more
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