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CHAPTER IV.
Modes of communicating Ideas. Gestures. Words. Pic-
tures. Hieroglyphs. Alphabets. The Phcenician..
The Chinese or Japanese. The Aztec. Their
Histories. All European Alphabets derived from
THE Phcenician. Oghamic Writing.
Modes of
communicat-
ing ideas.
Alphabets.
Picture.
Symbol.
Sound.
Man may communicate his ideas by gestures,
words, pictures, atid writing. Of these modes ges-
ture is the most general, and the sole mode with
primitive man. Gestures and words pass, writ-
ing remains. It involves the invention of an
alphabet.
An alphabet is a body of symbols representing
the sounds of a language.
The first stage in ideography seems to be a
rude drawing representing the thing expressed,
as the figure of an animal. The cave men were
equal to this feat. That drawing being improved
and colour added, we get the picture language.
The next stas^e is that of the invention of a
symbol for each figure, and that is the hiero-
glyphic stage. The next is the invention of a
symbol for a sound, and we get the phonetic
stage.
The latest expression of the history of alphabets.
Modes of communicating Ideas. Gestures. Words. Pic-
tures. Hieroglyphs. Alphabets. The Phcenician..
The Chinese or Japanese. The Aztec. Their
Histories. All European Alphabets derived from
THE Phcenician. Oghamic Writing.
Modes of
communicat-
ing ideas.
Alphabets.
Picture.
Symbol.
Sound.
Man may communicate his ideas by gestures,
words, pictures, atid writing. Of these modes ges-
ture is the most general, and the sole mode with
primitive man. Gestures and words pass, writ-
ing remains. It involves the invention of an
alphabet.
An alphabet is a body of symbols representing
the sounds of a language.
The first stage in ideography seems to be a
rude drawing representing the thing expressed,
as the figure of an animal. The cave men were
equal to this feat. That drawing being improved
and colour added, we get the picture language.
The next stas^e is that of the invention of a
symbol for each figure, and that is the hiero-
glyphic stage. The next is the invention of a
symbol for a sound, and we get the phonetic
stage.
The latest expression of the history of alphabets.
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Early Gaelic Book Collections > Blair Collection > Kelt or Gael > (30) |
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Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/75787014 |
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Description | His ethnography, geography and philology. |
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Shelfmark | Blair.17 |
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Description | A selection of books from a collection of more than 500 titles, mostly on religious and literary topics. Also includes some material dealing with other Celtic languages and societies. Collection created towards the end of the 19th century by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray. |
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Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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