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October 28th, 2022: Featuring Karen Landolt: Associate Professor and Consultant
Sponsored by Freestyle Languages and Cuvée Coffee.
Hosted at The Cathedral.
Video Production by Marty Robbins.
Photography by Chris Tyre.
President Cyril Ramaphosa signs the South African Sign Language Bill witnessed by Dr Wilma Newhoudt-Druchen (MP), Mr Jabulane Blose - South African National Deaf Association CEO, Mr Bruno Drunchen- DEAF Federation of South Africa and school learners at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
South African Sign Language is an indigenous language that constitutes an important element of South African linguistic and cultural heritage. It has its own distinct grammatical structures and lexicon and it is independent of any other language. [Photo: GCIS]
Some are easy, even I can figure them out. If anyone wants to help with identification of languages, feel free to add notes.
I loved that board.
I erased it all like a little bit ago. it was on their forever. my friends and I and anyone new that came over would write something new.
Emma signing for more crackers :) She also tried saying "more" tonight too! Where did my little baby go?! Now she's just a little girl!
Language Generator Drawings - Lewis Gesner - month long performance, part of Xing; exhibition at Howl Space, Tainan, Taiwan, 2012
The Love Language perform at Raleigh City Plaza in Raleigh, NC as part of the Hopscotch Music Festival on 9/11/10. Shot for PopMatters.
Print of the translation (1789)
Bologna, paper
Early Italian collections were studied by Danish antiquarian and coin specialist Georg Zoëga (1755–1809). Zoëga became the leading Egyptologist of his generation and was almost successful in decipherment. He rejected the view that hieroglyphs concerned occult sciences and magical rites, reading many inscriptions instead as praise of kings and gods. His early copy of the hieroglyphs on this statue is the only evidence of its now lost inscription.
Bes (747–332 BC)
Egypt, wood
This magical sculpture depicts the god Bes protecting Horus as a child. Notice the faded hieroglyphs on the back. Pouring water over the words unleashed their power.
Zoëga’s comments on the underside of the accompanying drawing show that he exchanged technical information about the object with scholars in England: ‘British Museum. Sycamore wood, covered with a bituminous substance like pitch, above which the hieroglyphs are painted in yellow.’ The sculpture had been part of the British Museum’s collection since 1785.
[British Museum]
Taken in the Exhibition
Hieroglyphs: Unlocking Ancient Egypt
(October 2022 - February 2023)
For centuries, life in ancient Egypt was a mystery.
We could only glimpse into this hidden world, until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone provided the key to decoding hieroglyphs, allowing us to read this ancient script. The breakthrough expanded our understanding of human history by some 3,000 years.
Marking 200 years since the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, this major exhibition took visitors through the trials and hard work that preceded, and the revelations that followed, this ground-breaking moment.
Hieroglyphs were not just beautiful symbols, they represented a living, spoken language. From romantic poetry and international treaties, to shopping lists and tax returns, the hieroglyphic inscriptions and ancient handwriting in this exhibition revealed stories that are fantastically varied. As well as an unshakeable belief in the power of the pharaohs and the promise of the afterlife, ancient Egyptians enjoyed good food, writing letters and making jokes.
The show charted the race to decipherment, from initial efforts by medieval Arab travellers and Renaissance scholars to more focussed progress by French scholar Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) and England’s Thomas Young (1773–1829). The Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799, with its decree written in hieroglyphs, demotic and the known language of ancient Greek, provided the key to decoding the ancient signs. The results of the 1822 breakthrough proved staggering.
Using inscriptions on the very objects that Champollion and other scholars studied, this immersive exhibition helped visitors to unlock one of the world’s oldest civilisations.
[British Museum]
This is a bottle of orange soda but they put Kim Jung Il's face on it and
named it Nuclear Orange Bomb. This is a good example of language because
they use this set of words and the picture to make a joke and attract
people to purchase the novelty soda.
Niue Language Week Display at TÅ«ranga, Wednesday 20 October 2021.
Photo by Moata Tamaira.
File reference: 2021-10-20-IMG_1142
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries