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Standard alphabet for reducing unwritten languages and foreign graphic systems to a uniform orthography in European letters / Richard Lepsius.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lepsius, Richard, 1810-1884.
- Series:
- Amsterdam studies in theory and history of linguistic science. Amsterdam classics in linguistics, 1800-1925 ; Series 1, v. 5.
- Amsterdam studies in theory and history of linguistic science. Series 1, Amsterdam classics in linguistics, 1800-1925, 03040712 ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transliteration.
- Phonetic alphabet.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (464 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd, rev. ed. (London, 1863) / edited with an introd. by J. Alan Kemp.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : J. Benjamins, 1981.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This new edition of Carl Richard Lepsius's Standard Alphabet reproduces the text of the second, enlarged, edition of 1863. The extensive Introduction by J. Alan Kemp places it in its historical setting and provides comments on the phonetic basis for the Alphabet and the notation.
- Contents:
- STANDARD ALPHABET FOR REDUCING UNWRITTEN LANGUAGES AND FOREIGN GRAPHIC SYSTEMS TO A UNIFORM ORTHOGRAPHY IN EUROPEAN LETTERS; Edotirial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; USE OF SYMBOLS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; I. INTRODUCTION TO LEPSUS'S 'STANDARD ALPHABET'; II. STANDARD ALPHABET FOR REDUCING UNWRITTEN LANGUAGES AND FOREIGN GRAPHIC SYSTEMS TO A UNIFORM ORTHOGRAPHY IN EUROPEAN LETTERS; ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION.; ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION.; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Introduction to the Second Edition.; FIRST PART. HISTORICAL AND SYSTEMATICAL DEVELOPMENT.
- SECOND PART. COLLECTION OF ALPHABETS REDUCED TO THE STANDARD ALPHABET.GENERAL TABLE OF LANGUAGES.; POSTSCRIPT.; STANDARD ALPHABET, SECOND EDITION 1863.; INDEX OF SUBJECTS; INDEX OF PERSONS; INDEX OF LANGUAGES
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-87950-5
- 9786613720818
- 90-272-8096-7
- OCLC:
- 756484650
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