Languages Archive
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High society and lower ranks in Ramesside Egypt at home and abroad
Posted on April 2, 2013 | No CommentsThis brief study simply explores mainly nooks and crevices, even curiosities, in the richly varied canvas of life in Egypt and its Near Eastern links in the 13th century BC, besides historical sidelights of wider significance. -
Re-Envisioning Classics As a Liberal Art
Posted on March 9, 2013 | No CommentsCollegiate classics, under the sway of too severe a concept of professional philology, has drastically underplayed its educational hand in such a way that it has diminished its vitality, impact, and usefulness; yet this damage can be reversed -
Scientists create automated
Posted on March 7, 2013 | No CommentsScientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created an automated 'time machine,' of sorts, that will greatly accelerate and improve the process of reconstructing hundreds of ancestral languages. -
The Teaching of Latin in a Multicultural Society: Problems and Possibilities
Posted on February 25, 2013 | No CommentsThe phenomenon of bicultural alienation amounting to almost total loss of identity is frequently documented. The problem of multilingualism has different aspects: to be able to join the mainstream of modern African urban life, native African speakers need to acquire at least one, often two, European-based languages. To promulgate an own, African education that would equip the native speaker with the tools to adapt to an 'Africanized' technological and media- controlled era would require the adaptation in South Africa alone of about eleven African languages to this era and its specialized vocabulary -
Computerized
Posted on February 12, 2013 | No CommentsUniversity of British Columbia and Berkeley researchers have used a sophisticated new computer system to quickly reconstruct protolanguages -
The Greek Language: Origin, Stages, Development
Posted on January 20, 2013 | No CommentsLecture by Athanasios Spilias -
Ancient hieroglyphics meet cutting-edge technology at Loughborough University
Posted on November 20, 2012 | No CommentsWorking with The Manchester Museum, Loughborough -
Alphabetic Imperialism?: A Cross-Cultural Glimpse into the Evolution of Writing
Posted on September 26, 2012 | No CommentsI will take the reader through a brief comparison of the writing systems of Sumer and Japan, noting points of commonality -
New dictionary on ancient Egyptian language completes 37-year project
Posted on September 20, 2012 | No CommentsEbony, Susan, are among the words that come down from the Demotic language -
Hellenism and the Shaping of the Byzantine Empire
Posted on August 27, 2012 | No CommentsWhile the role of Byzantine Hellenism on the art, literature, and society of the Empire has been the subject of tremendous study, the question of its origins has, nonetheless, rarely been raised, and the strongly Hellenic Byzantine identity seems, to a large extent, to have been taken for granted historiographically.
