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paleography
paleography [Gr.,=early writing], term generally meaning all study and interpretation of old ways of recording language. In a narrower sense, it excludes epigraphy (the study of inscriptions) and includes only the writing that is done on such materials as wax, papyrus, parchment, and paper. In West... Read more
calligraphy
calligraphy [Gr.,=beautiful writing], skilled penmanship practiced as a fine art. See also inscription ; paleography . European Calligraphy In Europe two sorts of handwriting came into being very early. Cursive script was used for letters and records, while far more polished writing sty... Read more
Arabic languages
Arabic languages members of the West Semitic group of the Semitic subdivision of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages ). The Arabic languages comprise North Arabic (or simply Arabic) and South Arabian (or Himyaritic or South Arabic); South Arabian differs sufficiently fro... Read more
Persian language
Persian language member of the Iranian group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Indo-Iranian languages). The official language of Iran, it has about 38 million speakers in Iran and another 8 million in Afghanistan. Historically the Persian language falls i... Read more
Afroasiatic languages
Afroasiatic languages , formerly Hamito-Semitic languages , family of languages spoken by more than 250 million people in N Africa; much of the Sahara; parts of E, central, and W Africa; and W Asia (especially the Arabian peninsula, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel). Since four of the Afr... Read more
Irish language
Irish language also called Irish Gaelic and Erse, member of the Goidelic group of the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Celtic languages ). The history of Irish as a literary language falls into three periods: Old Irish (7th-9th cent. AD), Middle Irish (10th-16th cent.... Read more
Burmese
Burmese language belonging to the Tibeto-Burman subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages ). It is spoken by about 30 million people in Myanmar, where it is both the principal and the official language. Burmese can be described as monosyllabic because root words... Read more
Aldus Manutius
Aldus Manutius or Aldo Manuzio , 1450-1515, Venetian printer. He was educated as a humanistic scholar and became tutor to several of the great ducal families. One of them, the Pio family, provided him with money to establish a printery in Venice. Aldus was at this time almost 45 years old. He de... Read more
Linear Scripts
Linear Scripts forms of Minoan writing. The earliest Minoan writing consisted of pictographs, called Cretan hieroglyphs, which date from about 2000 BC The first linear script, Linear A, dates from about 1700 BC and was also partly pictorial in nature. It appears on clay tablets written between 1750... Read more
Thai language
Thai language , formerly Siamese, member of the Tai or Thai subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages ). The official language of Thailand, Thai is spoken by approximately 50 million people in Thailand, Vietnam, and the Yunnan province of China. It has several di... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Old European Script"

Indo-Iranian
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages...Lanka (see The Indo-European Family of Languages...whereas Hindus use a script similar to the Devanagari...Iranian subfamily. The oldest written form of the...development of the Brahmi script, believed to be derived...form, which reflects ...
Tai Lue
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...like the Burmese script. In the 1950s the PRC reformed Tai scripts in Yunnan, and...read in the new script and that those educated in the new script cannot read the old Tai Lue documents...Nineteenth-century European scholars suggested...
Archaeology in the Middle East
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...members of the various European diplomatic missions...discover sites and decipher scripts that launched the newly...particularly relevant to European historical interests. Europeans collected statues...shipped them back to European metropoles, often without...x2013; 1895) worked on ...
SANSKRIT
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...Buddhism, and the oldest known member of the Indo-European language family...in the Devanagari script, which runs from...as Latin influenced European languages, Sanskrit...provided loans to European languages including...
RUSSIAN
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...branch of the INDO-EUROPEAN language family, the...written in Cyrillic script. It has c. 150m native...generally known as Old Russian , was spoken...present-day Western European Russia, the Ukraine...the 17c onward by other EUROPEAN LANGUAGES, especially...
paleography
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...and interpretation of old ways of recording language...have adopted Western European ways of writing, letters...black letter, and script—are derived...Petrarch. As the Spencerian script of the 19th cent. enables...Morison, Politics and Script (1972).
Iranian Languages
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...of the Indo – European language family, which...developed variant of the same script, the Pahlavi alphabet...Persian is descended from Old Persian, the language...the descendant of the old Alanic language(s...of the Zoroastrians. Old Avestan is very similar...
Arabic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...evolved from the Nabataean script, which is a descendant...styles of the Arabic script, the angular Kufic...basis of a number of scripts used by non-Arab peoples...others. South Arabian Old South Arabian, or Himyaritic...Ethiopic of Ethiopia. Old South Arabian had its...Arabic in the Mirror ...
African literature
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...languages antedates that in European languages, but the latter...dates from 1652. The oldest surving Swahili epic...19th century Latin script became more common...African literatures in European languages were mainly...Arguably the richest European language in African literatures...
SLAV(ON)IC LANGUAGES
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...branch of the INDO-EUROPEAN language family spoken...and South Slavonic (Old Church Slavonic, Macedonian...Serbo-Croat uses both scripts, Serbs Cyrillic, Croats...CANADIAN ENGLISH , EUROPEAN LANGUAGES, INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES .

Dictionary entries related to "Old European Script"

Mindadze, Aleksandr
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...1995; Nika Award for Best Script, for Vremya tantsora, 1998...individual input, although the scripts to Abdrashitov's films are...developed as a leading East European trend, and their early work...otherwise more East Central European direction. Moral problems...Soviet couple knock down an ...
Une Partie de Campagne
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Dufour ); Pierre Lestringuez (Old priest ). Publications Script: Renoir, Jean, Une Partie...1974. Harcourt, Peter, Six European Directors: Essays on the Meaning...Partie de campagne," in Post Script (Jacksonville, Florida...
Festen
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Leading Actor; Fassbinder Award as European Discovery, European Film Academy Awards, 1998; Los...Foreign Language Film. Publications Script: Vinterberg, Thomas, and Mogens...joke, but is persuaded by an old friend to stay and see his showdown...
Kanal
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Prize, 1957. Publications Script: Stawinski, Jerzy Stefan...The Most Important Art: East European Film After 1945, Berkeley...and Commitment in the Eastern European Cinema, New York, 1983...Warsaw, as an 18-year-old in 1939 and then in the Warsaw...
Walkabout
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Roeg's Walkabout," in Post Script (Jacksonville, Florida...Northern Territory, at 16 years old, was chosen by Roeg to play...Englishman, Roeg cannot escape a European viewpoint when looking at Australia...Romanticism, a movement in European art, music, and literature...
The Apu Trilogy
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Daughter ); Chunibali Devi (Old woman ). Awards: Best Human...Bodil Award as Best Non-European Film, Denmark, 1966. Publications Scripts: Ray, Satyajit, Pather...Bodil Award as Best Non-European Film, Denmark, 1967. Publications...
Balada O Soldate
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Grigori Chukhrai, 1961. Publications Script: Chukhrai, Grigori, and Valentin Yoshov...Liehm, The Most Important Art: East European Art after 1945, Berkeley, 1977. Veress...1962. Chukhrai, Grigori, "Keeping the Old on Their Toes," in Films and Filming...
Le Diable au Corps
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Denise Grey; Jean Debucourt. Publications Script: Autant-Lara, Claude, Le diable au...French film of 1947. Winner of several European awards, the film was also banned in communities...son of an upright bourgeois, she the older woman whose husband is off at the front...
Limite
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Faciana Rei; Raul Schnoor. Publications Script: de Mello, Sãulo Pereira...screening of Limite, directed by the 19 year old novice Mario Peixoto, took place in a...free narrative style can be traced to the European fashion avant-garde of the 1920s, its...
L'Odeur de la Papaye Verte
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Mother ); Nguyen Anh Hoa (Old Thi ); Vuong Hoa Hoi...of Mui, a 12-year-old servant girl (Lu Man...directed from his own script, makes clear that Mui...recently back from his European studies. He is engaged...outdoor kitchen, with the old housekeeper (Nguyen Anh...

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Tony hopes script has a happy ending; EUROPEAN CHALLENGE CUP: RUDDOCK BID TO INSPIRE WARRIORS.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England); 5/25/2008; 700+ words ; ...Windo admits it will be a fairytale finale if he signs off with European Challenge Cup glory on his former Gloucester stomping ground...the table, Warriors were third bottom. But the 39-year-old insists they will confidently take the game to their muchfancied...
Luwians and their script.
Magazine article from: Calliope; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Hittite is an Indo-European language. As such...languages Hittite is the oldest we know. Therefore...Early forms of that script can already be round...onward, however, the script developed into a real...Yet, while Luwian script consists mostly of recognizable...Aegean area to the west. ...
STATE DEPT.: EXHIBITION EXPLORES AFRICAN SCRIPT, ARTWORK
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 6/5/2007; 700+ words ; ...more than 3,600 years old, to paintings and drawings...galleries explore how scripts and symbols have been...African artworks use scripts and symbols to communicate...Meaning focuses on seven scripts and graphic systems...Ethiopian liturgical script; syllabaries (phonetic...Roman) ...
Film: `One take, no script, no catering. I love it' It took Mike Figgis just days to shoot his two new low-budget films. In an interview with himself, the maverick director explains why he's happy to remain a small fish in a pool of sharks
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/13/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...fortune read by an Eastern European lady. She looked me...and 27 actors, with no script, everything improvised...more interesting the script got, the harder it seemed...agreed for writing the script and me accepting. Q...refuse to write long scripts any more; I just write...listen to some ...
Endemol USA Announces New Pilot Script Commitments and Talent Holding Deals in Scripted Division.
PR Newswire; 5/8/2007; 700+ words ; ...have already sold drama scripts to FX and The CW as well as comedy scripts to TBS and ABC Family...development include pilot script commitments on the following...ordered an untitled pilot script from Brian Hargrove...unemployed 21 year-old who discovers one day...including the major ...
Reading from different scripts
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post; 6/25/2004; 700+ words ; ...talks to agree a new European Union constitution...opened the way for a European prosecutor. While...spiritual ancestor - the old Soviet Union. There...the creation of a European superstate. Unless he changes his script, it may be time to...
NEWS LITE : NAMES IN THE NEWS `CHEERS' SCRIPT SWIPED AT AUCTION.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 2/18/1997; 700+ words ; An autographed script of the last episode of...NBC comedy, donated the script to the Handel &...said the 38-year-old heir to the throne of...obligations to his tiny European principality will keep...000. The 41-year-old actor lives in Hailey...
Tuned in to the script: in a nod to classic musicals, director John Carney cast musicians and set out to make a modern movie about love
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/20/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...relied less on a typical script, something that was more...and a young Eastern European pianist (Irglova) who...the "perfect 90-page script," something he admits...Carney turned to his old friend Hansard, who had...features both new and old songs from Hansard's...
Clarke writes the script as Tiger can onlywatch and wonder.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 9/24/2006; 700+ words ; ...unashamedly, is for a European victory. Yet we know...day is to be dressed in European blue, then the spirit...the fearsome force of old and the sublime Sergio...had written their own script. But then, this is...beneath the twin burdens of European talent and Irish exhortation...
Reviews:Indian Country:Shooting from the script with subtle tale
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland; 6/12/2003; ; 519 words ; ...of a prestigious new European collaboration to translate...plays into several major European languages. Set in 1958...centres round 12-year-old farm boy Mos, who...despair and Povey's script is the real star: heady...extra measure to the script's dexterity. Run Ends...