单词 | syllabary |
例句 | Surrounded by alphabets he could not understand, he instead independently reinvented a syllabary, unaware that the Minoans of Crete had already invented another syllabary 3,500 years previously. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Linear B, the writing of Mycenaean Greece, was at least simpler, being based on a syllabary of about 90 signs plus logograms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hence a possible interpretation seems to me idea diffusion, as in the case of Sequoyah’s syllabary. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus, the developmental sequence of uses for alphabetic writing was the reverse of that for the earlier systems of logograms and syllabaries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, Japan continues to use its horrendously cumbersome kanji writing system in preference to efficient alphabets or Japan’s own efficient kana syllabary—because the prestige attached to kanji is so great. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Within a short time, the Cherokees achieved almost 100 percent literacy in the syllabary, bought a printing press, had Sequoyah’s signs cast as type, and began printing books and newspapers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The writing was no longer an ambiguous syllabary mixed with logograms but an alphabet borrowed from the Phoenician consonantal alphabet and improved by the Greek invention of vowels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z People who teach and speak the Cherokee language today use Sequoyah’s syllabary. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z For the same reason, we can be sure that the Linear B syllabary of Mycenaean Greece had been adapted by around 1400 B.C. from the Linear A syllabary of Minoan Crete. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A striking example from the history of writing is the origin of the syllabary devised in Arkansas around 1820 by a Cherokee Indian named Sequoyah, for writing the Cherokee language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Sequoyah’s syllabary is widely admired by professional linguists for its good fit to Cherokee sounds, and for the ease with which it can be learned. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The characters he created represented syllables rather than letter sounds, so it is called a syllabary rather than an alphabet. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Some syllabaries persist today, the most important being the kana syllabary that the Japanese use for telegrams, bank statements, and texts for blind readers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, the phonetic signs in Sumerian writing fell far short of a complete syllabary or alphabet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most such tailor-made systems modify existing alphabets, though some instead design syllabaries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The disk’s script was a syllabary with more signs, of more complex form, than the Roman alphabet used by Gutenberg. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He published the syllabary in 1958, and made use of it in handwritten manuscripts both anthropological and spiritual. The African Artist-Writer Who Mapped New Worlds 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z His use of written French reaffirms that Bouabré never conceived of his art, or indeed his Bété syllabary, as a private language. The African Artist-Writer Who Mapped New Worlds 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Hill placed a Cherokee syllabary character above each column to spread awareness of the lyrical language. At the U.S. Open, 5 Artists Get a Place in the Sun 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Each column has a letterpress piece with a Cherokee syllabary to spread awareness of the written language. U.S.T.A. and the Armory Show to Bring 5 Artists to the U.S. Open 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z What Fleiner takes for a parody may be just one more application of the greatest nonsense syllabary in the annals of rock. ‘The Kinks: A Thoroughly English Phenomenon’ — but a worldwide influence 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Only one motif looks out of place: the name “Maiku,” rendered in a phonetic Japanese syllabary. In the galleries: Art that expresses the feel of Foggy Bottom 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z In the early 1800s Cherokee polymath Sequoyah invented the Cherokee syllabary of written characters. A Number System Invented by Inuit Schoolchildren Will Make Its Silicon Valley Debut 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Or, going back to the beginning of this chapter and Sequoyah’s syllabary, you may choose to take inspiration from something linguistic, an expression or a way of talking that is associated with your culture. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Bouabré became convinced they were the remains of an ancient writing system, and he wanted to use them as the basis for a new alphabet, or syllabary. Review | MoMA is finally paying attention to great artists from Africa 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z With a collaborator, Rozin devised an experimental curriculum that moved children through degrees of linguistic abstraction by teaching them Chinese logographs followed by a Japanese syllabary, and only then applying the same logic to English. How Disgust Explains Everything 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z This year, the Braves sold T-shirts with a word that translated roughly to “ballplayer” in Cherokee syllabary; the proceeds supported the tribe’s language immersion program. The ‘tomahawk chop’ lives on in Atlanta. Now it has the World Series spotlight. 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The inscriptions inside Manitou Cave, near Fort Payne, are evidence of the tribe's syllabary, which the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah developed using symbols for each sound. Mysterious Cherokee tribal writing inside Alabama cave decoded, reveals its secrets 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z News outlets report the inscriptions inside Manitou Cave near Fort Payne are the first evidence of the tribe’s syllabary, which uses symbols to create words. Cherokee tribal writing inside Alabama cave finally decoded 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z By 1956, his focus had moved away from the pebbles, but he was working on a related project — the development of a Bété syllabary that methodically transformed speech into simple pictograms and then into text. Review | MoMA is finally paying attention to great artists from Africa 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z News outlets report the inscriptions inside Manitou Cave near Fort Payne are the first evidence of the tribe’s syllabary, which uses symbols to create words. Cherokee tribal writing inside Alabama cave finally decoded 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The Cherokee syllabary, which consists of 85 characters—one for each syllable in the Cherokee language—spread rapidly after its invention around 1821. First Cherokee cave inscriptions commemorate ancient lacrosselike game 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Even after moving with other Cherokees to Arkansas sometime before 1820, Sequoyah continued to perfect the syllabary. Gifted linguist’s syllabary makes milestone this year 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z The tribe’s syllabary was created in the 1800s by Cherokee scholar Sequoyah, who eventually developed the tribe’s official written language. Cherokee tribal writing inside Alabama cave finally decoded 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z He’s reading a yellow-bound New Testament, and he has open a Bible written in Sequoyah’s syllabary. D-Day vet holds honor of beloved man for Cherokees 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z The tribe’s syllabary was created in the 1800s by Cherokee scholar Sequoyah, who eventually developed the tribe’s official written language. Cherokee tribal writing inside Alabama cave finally decoded 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Cherokee had no writing system until the early 1800s, when the renowned Sequoyah wrote a syllabary to put its sounds on paper. Hopes of preserving Cherokee language rest with children 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Thus, the year 1821 is considered to be the date for the completion of the Cherokee syllabary. Gifted linguist’s syllabary makes milestone this year 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z The earliest was found as late as 1882, a plain vase of black ware with an Etruscan inscription and a syllabary or spelling exercise, and the Greek alphabet twice repeated. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z The original picture-writing out of which the cuneiform syllabary developed, had been invented by the primitive non-Semitic population of Chaldæa, from whom it had been afterwards adopted and adapted by their Semitic successors. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z It is also probable that the translations from Akkadian of the numerous inscriptions written in that language, and the bilingual lists, syllabaries, and other texts of a similar nature, belong to this period. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Shortly afterward, orientalists made great discoveries in the Mesopotamian valley, but the inscriptions at Van did not tally with any syllabaries discovered up to that time, nor could they be translated in any known language. Armenian Legends and Festivals 2011-11-26T03:00:13.237Z Large use was further made of the vowels, the syllable ba, for example, being written ba-a, so that the syllabary tended to become an alphabet. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z Probably no dead religion whose life was among a people ignorant of syllabaries or of the alphabet is presented to us in a more trustworthy form than the religion of Mexico. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The pupil, therefore, who wished to learn the cuneiform syllabary at all thoroughly was compelled to know something of the old Sumerian language of Chaldæa. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z The text in question is the exceedingly important syllabary designated by Prof. Fried. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Here the empire of Sargon of Akkad grew up, and the cuneiform syllabary became an imperfect means for expressing the sounds of a Semitic language. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The pictorial origin of the syllabary has proved of important assistance in reading the texts. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z The more civilised peoples, Aztecs and Peruvians, had many peculiarities in common with the races of ancient Egypt, China and India; where they fell short was in the lack of alphabet or syllabary. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Naturally the study of the foreign syllabary and language was facilitated in every possible way. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z This syllabary enabled the Japanese to express the sounds of their vernacular without difficulty. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z He further wrote what was long a standard history of pottery, investigated the Cypriote syllabary, and proved by various publications that he had not lost his old interest in Chinese. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z Though the syllabary is essentially of Sumerian origin there is much in it which is traceable to a Semitic source. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z The broken clay tablets belonging to this library not only furnished the student with an immense mass of literary matter, but also with direct aids towards a knowledge of the Assyrian syllabary and language. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments The language was that of Babylonia, the script was the cuneiform syllabary of the same country. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z The people of Annam have adopted the Chinese characters without making a syllabary or alphabet to express their own vernacular. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z It is doubtful whether they classified the signs of the huge hieroglyphic syllabary with any strictness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The Japanese, a very intelligent people, made what you have learned to know as a syllabary, out of signs taken from the Chinese symbols. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks Another disadvantage due to the hieroglyphic origin of the Assyrian syllabary is the number of different phonetic values the same character may bear. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments Each proverb begins with a certain one of the fifty Japanese letters, i, ro, ha, etc., and so through the syllabary. Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories Neither of these syllabaries is generally used entirely alone, but the three are joined together or interchanged somewhat according to the fancy of the writer, in a manner similar to Archdeacon Wrangham's famous echo poem. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z Further, to scholars a reminder is needed that even the syllabaries and bilingual texts do not give exact information. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters It is called a syllabary, you remember, because each sign stood in their language for a syllable. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks Another hypothesis has been lately started, and an attempt made to affiliate the Cypriot syllabary to the as yet little understood hieroglyphic system of the Hittites. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 With the Heian epoch is connected the wide use of the phonetic script known as kana, which may be described as a syllabary of forty-seven symbols formed from abbreviated Chinese ideographs. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era The sounds and meanings of Chinese characters are expressed in this syllabary in the duoglott works prepared by the Coreans for learning Chinese; while it is used by itself in works intended for the natives. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z Women as well as men learned to read and write, and in Semitic times this involved a knowledge of the extinct Sumerian as well as of a most complicated and extensive syllabary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Moreover, will you not feel ashamed of people who laugh or sneer at savage nations who have no sound-writing, no syllabary, no alphabet? St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks It was probably at the court of Sargon of Akkad that what we may term the final revision of the syllabary took place. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs But in the thirteenth, the aim of Yasutoki and his fellow legislators was to render the laws intelligible to all, and with that object they were indited mostly in the kana syllabary. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era There are still two other syllabaries, one called Manyo-kana, and the other Yamato-kana, both of which are formed of still more complicated Chinese characters, also used phonetically. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z The characters of the syllabary were all arranged and named, and elaborate lists of them were drawn up. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" The R sound, the chief distinguishing characteristic of the old Lower dialect, of course does not occur, as there are no means of indicating it in the Cherokee syllabary. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398 From syllabaries, we learn that he was a form of the sun-god, worshipped in the city of Kish in northern Babylonia, and it also appears that he was identified at one period with Ninib. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria A few extracts will serve to show the nature of the ethical teaching given to Japanese children in medieval days: *A syllabary of moral precepts like the ethical copy-books of Occidentals. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era The characters of this syllabary were formed by taking Chinese characters, either in whole or in part, and using them phonetically, but as indivisible syllables. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z Yet, even in those days, the Babylonian syllabary continued to be a mixture of ideographic and phonetic writing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" The tablets embrace every class of literature, historical documents, hymns, prayers and educational works, such as syllabaries or spelling-books, and dictionaries. The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 A syllabary describes the god as a 'raging' deity, a description that suggests solar functions. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria The kana13 is a syllabary of forty-seven letters, which by diacritical marks, may be increased to seventy. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji The characters in this syllabary were called katakana, i. e. "parts of letters." The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z Such an introduction, however, implies that the new alphabet had already taken deep root among the merchants of Canaan, and driven out before it the cumbrous syllabary of Chaldæa. Patriarchal Palestine It would seem as if the inventer of the Hittite hieroglyphs had seen those of Egypt, just as Doalu, the inventor of the Sei syllabary, is known to have seen European writing. The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Those who cling to the theory of a non-Semitic origin of the cuneiform syllabary will, of course, be ready to answer in the affirmative. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Note the reference to the difficult nature of the Pehlevi syllabary. Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I This syllabary and that invented for the Cherokees by Guess, are the only two in the world. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z When the cuneiform syllabary was superseded in Palestine by the so-called Phoenician alphabet we do not know. Patriarchal Palestine This is confirmed by the writing En-gi-dú in the syllabary CT XVIII, 30, 10. An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic The cuneiform syllabary is largely Semitic in character. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria There also exists in Japan a syllabary alphabet of forty-seven characters, used at present as an auxiliary to the Chinese. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The German savants, mostly attributing them to the Sabá tribes, who immigrated from Yemen about our first century, tried the Himyaritic syllabaries and failed. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 For a while the hieroglyphic writing of Egypt had taken the place formerly occupied by the cuneiform syllabary of Babylonia, and Egyptian culture had succeeded in supplanting that which had come from the East. Patriarchal Palestine The syllabaries explain this ideogram by "Assur," but it is very awkward that in these texts the identification with Assur occurs nowhere. Babylonian and Assyrian Literature He despises the uneducated, as he can read and write both the syllabaries. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan It was a vast improvement on the old syllabary, but it had its drawbacks. A History of Science — Volume 1 By such slurring of sounds the syllabary is reduced far below its ideal limits; yet even so it retains three or four hundred characters. A History of Science — Volume 1 A brief analysis of speech sounds will aid us in understanding the real nature of the syllabary. A History of Science — Volume 1 The phonetic writing of Nebuchadnezzar is "An-pa-sa-du-sis," each of which syllables has been identified through the syllabaries. Babylonian and Assyrian Literature The children recited a verse of poetry which I understood contained the whole of the simple syllabary. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan |
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