Chinese and Sumerian (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

C. J. Ball

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133040016X ISBN 13 : 9781330400166

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how ancient scripts influence each other across cultures and time. This nonfiction work examines the connections between Sumerian and Chinese writing, showing how phonetics, symbols, and meanings blend and shift. You’ll see how later characters can fuse originally separate signs, revealing a rich history of written language.

The pages frame a scholarly conversation with concrete examples drawn from the text’s notes and sign lists. It illuminates how readers can trace the evolution of characters, sound patterns, and the shaping of early writing systems, without requiring prior expertise in either script.

• Clear explanations of how symbols transformed and merged over time


• Examples that connect Sumerian and Chinese forms and sounds


• Discussion of methods used to compare ancient scripts


• Context for how writing systems influence one another across civilizations

Ideal for readers of linguistic history, philology, and students curious about early writing and cross-cultural exchange.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Chinese and Sumerian

A lengthy preface would hardly go well with a slender book. And it is a pertinent question to ask why an author, of whatever sort, should labour to say over again in brief all that he has already said at length. The slenderness of the present volume is happily not due to an early consumption of the available material. The introductory chapter, with its analyses of various Sumerian characters, mostly determined years ago, although here published for the first time, might have been considerably prolonged; especially if Professor Barton's valuable work on the Origin and Development of Babylonian Writing had come to hand before this book was sent to press (September 1912). The fifty pages or so of philological discussion which precede the detailed comparison of vocabularies, might easily have been extended to a hundred or more, had the writer chosen to publish everything lying at his disposal in the miscellaneous accumulations of years. As it is, some may think that he has given more than sufficient evidence of the imperfection of his own equipment for dealing with the difficult problems of speech and writing which the book makes some attempt to solve; and he will not be altogether dissatisfied with results, if an examination of his work should induce a few younger minds, starting with the advantages of a better education and higher natural endowments, to follow in a path in which it is perhaps not entirely presumptuous on his part to hope to be regarded hereafter as a humble pioneer.

The writer's thanks are due to the Staff of the Clarendon Press for the care and intelligence exhibited in the production of a work involving many material difficulties. He is especially sensible of obligation to the draughtsman whose calligraphy is well displayed in the Plates of Characters.

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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133040016X
• ISBN 13: 9781330400166
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 196
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