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The start of a book proposal
Alphabets, Codes,
and Writing Systems
Good books in this area
The alphabet labyrinth
Writing Systems by Sampson
Visible Speech by DeFrancis
The Alphabet by Diringer
Writing Systems by ....
What none of these books do is to fully reveal the code because the
original code usually
relates to a dead language. Probably the closest to what we are
doing is the work of Rom...
who developed one of the first - write your name in hieroglyphics sites.
To do this, one had
to play fast and loose with Egyptian vowel phonograms because there
were never any
solid vowel phonograms. A method of handling vowels was worked
out in the middle kingdom
but was not deployed except in foreign place names and the names of
historic personalities.
The alef was used for A, the double leaf for /i:/ , the single leaf
for any weak short vowel [i, e, ..]
The chick or whip for o or u or w. There was not a clear TD distinction
so in Champolions
work on diciphering the CLEOPATRA cartouche, the spelling was KLEOPADR
'LEKZANDR
Foreing place names are rarely used in expositions of the code because
they appear to be
mangled. AKKADIAN PHOENICINA, CANAANITE,
The vowels in Egyptian for instance are quite problematic and
open to charges of being speculative rather than based on solid scholarship.
Egyptian from the very beginning of its rediscovery [1832] was related
to western speech sounds.
Very little of what came before is very useful and what came afterward
is open to criticism.
English written in Japanese, Korean, Runes, Quipu, Phoenician, and other
ancient scripts.
Modern English written alphabetically as in Old English, is quite different
from the traditional script.
Alphabetical English
An English Syllabary
Are these codes up to graphically representing English.
In many cases they are not because they often do not include or mark
vowels.
It would be an easy matter, however, to locate vowel representations
as
in the case of hieroglyphics which in the popular transcribers associate
glyphs used in ancient times to mark consonants with aeiou.
Were hieroglyphic phonograms ever adequatelydeciphered?
Certainly much of the early work was speculative and was more concerend
with approximating the actual sounds of this dead language as it related
to Greek.
This was problematic from the beginning since it was much easier to
transcribe
ancient Egyptian into Hebrew or Arabic than into an Indo-European tongue.
Here is a list of the glphs that were associated with common speech sounds
aleph = ah - and by extnesion, ae, and uh
leaf =
double leaf = ee?
chick or rope = owe and u
cheth - which became [h] hail with ...
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Book Proposal
URLs [Quipu], [Hangul], [
There are perhaps a hundred books, counting childrens books, written
on alphabets, codes, and decipherment.
So perhaps 30% of this book covers familiar territory. What is
unique in this presentation is the
novel way that ancient codes are presented. Instead of getting
involved in how to speak a forgotten language this book
deals exclusively with the code itself. The easiest way to understand
the code is not to decipher an unknown language but
to decipher an English story written in that code.
Dr. Bett worked with Serge Romasdi on finding an easy way to explain
the structure of hieroglyphics: a hybrid code combingin
sound signs [phonograms] with meaning markers or determinants [semagrams]
and ... [URL]
ROsmasdi is the developer of the popular website, how to write your
name in hieroglyphics.
What would an English sentence look like if it were written, without translation, in Japanese, Chinese, Hangol, Mayan, Kipu, Phonenician, etc.
What would a short story containing all the sounds of English look like if it were written in Japanese, Chinese, Hangol, Mayan, Kipu, Phonenician, etc.
A profession text might be interested in learning how to decipher cuneiform
or to write
an ancient language using one of the cuneiform codes. This text
writes english text in the
This book asks the question, what if English were written in a syllabary,
in Peruvian kipu, ancient Mayan, or Phoenician.
What would it look like? Is there a better way to reveal how
a code works? You will not learn
how to decipher ancient
This book has a chapter on dicipherment but does not pretend that you
will be able to understand ancient inscriptions
as You will come a way with a better understanding
of how professionals understand what was written down in ancient inscriptions.
but you will not be able to While you may be able to decode
something, without knowing the foreing tongue, you will not be able
to understand much of it.
