Glaister’s Glossary of Book on DevanagariFriday, August 17th, 2007 with No Comments »

Devanagari: or nagari, the type mostly but not solely used for printing Indian Sanskrit literature as well as works in the modern languages Bihari and Hindi.
Sanskrit. From 1200 bc or earlier, Classical Sanskrit was the language of kings, priests, and Hindu scripture, science, and philosophy. Its form was fixed by Panini’s grammar, the […]

Die erste Publikation der indischen Nagari-SchriftzeichenTuesday, May 15th, 2007 with No Comments »

Es war sicherlich kein guter  Griff, als man aus­gerechnet den Ägyptologen Adolf Erman mit der Ab­fassung des Artikels über den Jesuiten Athanasius Kircher in der „Allgemeinen Deutschen Biographie” (Bd. 16, 1882) betraute: gerade als ob dieser eigen­artige, nur sich selbst gleiche Mensch ausschließlich als Ägyptologe, der er auch war, zu begreifen wäre! Durch Erman  […]

Indian Language Type FacesTuesday, February 27th, 2007 with No Comments »

The first of the Indian languages to be translated into type was Tamil and was due to the efforts of Jesuit missionaries. In De Backer’s Bibliotheque de la Compagnie de Jesus, in the account of the work of Antoine de Proença, whose Vocabulario Tamulico was printed at Ambalacata on the Malabar coast in 1679, […]

Practical Chinese Reader MP3Sunday, April 2nd, 2006 with No Comments »

Practical Chinese Reader v1 (1-30 lessons)
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