The recent announcement by Morocco that Berber will be taught in schools using the Tifinagh script* and an observation of Tifinagh signs in parts of Algeria**...
This seems like a fairly major development (especially to me who has been wanting to learn it for some time now and is now thinking about enrolling in moroccan...
I don't know a lot about the background, but there's politics involved, apparently (but the issue is not new), and one contact indicated that there were some...
The September 2003 issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine has a nice piece on the Initiative for Cuneiform Encoding (ICE) entitled "Clay, Paper, Code." See ...
Greetings all, I have uploaded at http://www.geocities.com/jglavy/asian.html, a revised version of my Balinese and Javanese fonts and accompanied it with a ...
Gabriella, Some interesting info and a bibliography have been posted on the Unicode-Afrique group as part of an ongoing exchange on Berber that has shifted to...
That's a quite-enjoyable article. It quickly reminded me of FLAAR, <www.flaar.org>, which got its start making very-high-quality digital photos (including...
Sorry for the follow-up; FLAAR might not have started quite as I implied. They did do photography in Latin Anerican museums, though. As well,this is really...
This site seems to require Flash. While hardly scholarly, it is interesting in that it's a calendar-clock, but in which the digit updates are all fairly-small...
I wrote a description about that subject, then came to my senses, and Googled. Here's the first hit: <http://www.io.com/~iareth/codindx.html> Reading the text...
... Neither Bodley's message nor Geist's Web site mention the year, or even the century, in which the Codex was written. That might provide some insight....
... As far as I can remember, it dates back to the middle of the 1980's. It was probably 1984 or 1985: the publishing house (Franco Maria Ricci, Milan) was on...
Marco Cimarosti
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... It's quite likely to be a late-20th Century work. Regards, -- Nicholas Bodley <#o#> Waltham, Mass. <nbodley@...> Using Opera browser 7.22 (3221)...
... It was first published in 1981, and presumably written a fairly short time before that. Luigi Serafini, the author, was born in 1949. -- "What has four...
... The American edition is New York: Abbeville, 1983; the title page, copyright page, and jackect copy are typset in English, and all the rest is presumably...
I need someone to think of a quick example, off the top of their head, of a language (and example word) that uses the voiced velar fricative, the voiced...
******************************************************** J E P 2 0 0 4 - T A L N 2 0 0 4 - Special Session - ... ARABIC LANGUAGE PROCESSING Call for...
BOUALEM Malek FTRD/DM...
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BTW, with all this talk (on Unicode) about hexadecimal digits and "Doug's private alphabet," I should mention that I've added some better charts and examples...
On Thursday, 20 November 2003, from 16:00-17:00 GMT (11:00-12:00 EST, 08:00-09:00 PST) I will be interviewed live on The Connection, a NPR radio programme...
Yippee! Right in my home territory. This is one of my favorite radio shows; your host will probably be Dick Gordon, hired away from CBC radio; by then, he ...
... Well, I will be speaking in Dublin at 16:00, so there isn't much chance of my beingg aired at 10:00 EST. ... Readers of Qalam can ask me anything they want...
If anyone can find, or create, a text transcript of this show, I would appreciate it. I didn't get to hear the broadcast, and I don't have a computer with...