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1 day ago · There have in fact been, in one sense or another, at least five women’s scripts. Wikipedia identifies several of them: Nüshu, from China. Hiragana, from Japan. “When it was first developed, hiragana was not accepted by everyone. The educated or elites preferred to use only the kanji system. Historically, in Japan, the regular script ...
3 days ago · When the Spaniards arrived in the Philippines, the more famous Filipino system of writing, the Baybayin was discarded. However, in Mindoro, the Buhid and Hanunoo Mangyans continued to practice their writing system. The Mangyan script like the Baybayin is based on the syllables of the Philippine phonetics.
2 days ago · Baybayin ( ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔, [a] Tagalog pronunciation: [bajˈbajɪn]; also formerly known as alibata) is a Philippine script. The script is an abugida belonging to the family of the Brahmic scripts. Geographically, it was widely used in Luzon and other parts of the Philippines prior to and during the 16th and 17th centuries before ...
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5 days ago · Commenting on the verse “May God enlarge Japeth and let him dwell in the tents of Shem” (Gen 9:27a), the rabbis offer several readings, including: “Bar Kappara explained it: Let the words of the Torah be uttered in the language of Japheth [i.e. Greek] in the tents of Shem. R. Judan said: From this we learn that a translation is permitted ...
4 days ago · Nvshu is likely to be created by women when they were embroidering and weaving, which is used for emotion exchange between women via recording their local dialect. The inheritance ways of Nvshu are as follows: family teaching, private tutoring, mutual learning, and self-study.
5 days ago · The researchers acknowledge that each language was represented with a very small sample size (most had only a single song) and that the scientists may have chosen simpler melodies that aren’t ...
4 days ago · Meroitic Cursive was used for the majority of extant texts. A British Egyptologist, Francis Llewellyn Griffith, first deciphered the script in 1909, but the language the script is written in is still not fully understood. However, the script is important as an early writing system in Africa.
