Sign Languages of the World
Sign Languages of the World

Author: Julie Bakken Jepsen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-10-16

Total Pages: 1086

ISBN-13: 150150102X

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Although a number of edited collections deal with either the languages of the world or the languages of particular regions or genetic families, only a few cover sign languages or even include a substantial amount of information on them. This handbook provides information on some 38 sign languages, including basic facts about each of the languages, structural aspects, history and culture of the Deaf communities, and history of research. This information will be of interest not just to general audiences, including those who are deaf, but also to linguists and students of linguistics. By providing information on sign languages in a manner accessible to a less specialist audience, this volume fills an important gap in the literature.

The Secret of the Hittites
The Secret of the Hittites

Author: C. W. Ceram

Publisher: Phoenix

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 9781842122952

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The author of the acclaimed Gods, Graves, and Scholars tells the dramatic tale of the Hittites, an Indo-European people who became a dominant power in the Middle East. Their struggle in Egypt with Ramses II for control of Syria led to one of the greatest battles of the ancient world. The fall of the Hittite empire was sudden, and historical records were scarce--until the discovery of cuneiform tablets yielded a rich store of information on which this work is based. "...a saga richly charged with dramatic twists and with enthralling accounts of scholarly detective work."--The Atlantic.

The Unicode HOWTO
The Unicode HOWTO

Author: Bruno Haible

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11-13

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781708075613

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Summary This classic document describes how to change your Linux system so it uses UTF-8 as text encoding.It is was written in 2001, still a must-read reference on this area. It is a book you should have on your bookshelf. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1 Why Unicode? 1.2 Unicode encodings 1.3 Related resources 2. Display setup 2.1 Linux console 2.2 X11 Foreign fonts 2.3 X11 Unicode fonts 2.4 Unicode xterm 2.5 TrueType fonts 2.6 Miscellaneous 3. Locale setup 3.1 Files & the kernel 3.2 Upgrading the C library 3.3 General data conversion 3.4 Locale environment variables 3.5 Creating the locale support files 4. Specific applications 4.1 Shells 4.2 Networking 4.3 Browsers 4.4 Editors 4.5 Mailers 4.6 Text processing 4.7 Databases 4.8 Other text-mode applications 4.9 Other X11 applications 5. Printing 5.1 Printing using TrueType fonts 5.2 Printing using fixed-size fonts 5.3 The classical approach 5.4 No luck with... 6. Making your programs Unicode aware 6.1 C/C++ 6.2 Java 6.3 Lisp 6.4 Ada95 6.5 Python 6.6 JavaScript/ECMAscript 6.7 Tcl 6.8 Perl 6.9 Related reading 7. Other sources of information 7.1 Mailing lists