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🐲 The #ChineseLanguage and its #writingsystem ✍️ represent one of the most enduring and unique linguistic traditions in human history. Rooted in the Sino-Tibetan language family, #Chinese evolved in a completely different cultural and historical context compared to the #IndoEuropeanlanguages. In this post, we briefly explore its origins and development and its linguistic characteristics and significance:

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Groupings of Sino-Tibetan languages. Source: Wikimedia Commonsꜛ (license: CC BY-SA 4.0).
Script on bone, oracle bone script on bone and tortoise shell, Anyang, Henan Province (replica, gifts of the China Printing Museum, Beijing). Before making important decisions, Chinese rulers consulted their ancestors: cattle shoulder blade bones and tortoise shells were placed in the fire. The cracks caused by the heat were read as an omen of things to come. After the ritual, the day and reason for the questioning as well as the answer were carved on the bones. The signs used for this are called called ‘oracle bone writing’ today. Gutenberg Museum, Mainz.
‘Shang’ in oracle bone script (top left), bronze script (top right), seal script (bottom left), and regular script (bottom right) forms. Source: Wikimedia Commonsꜛ (license: public domain).
The first four characters of the 6th-century Thousand Character Classic in different styles. From right to left: seal script, clerical script, regular script, Song type, and sans-serif type. Source: Wikimedia Commonsꜛ (license: public domain).
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I have been very interested in Tibetan Buddhism as of late and I recently learned how to recite the Seven Line Prayer as well as write it out accurately. I am so captured by the Tibetan script's beauty that I wanted to try my hand at it. This is one of the ume scripts called Tsugtong. I still need to learn to terminate the sentences properly.

The Seven Line Prayer from Tibetan Buddhism.
#tibetan#writingsystem#buddhism
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Sam at BLAG

I was looking at these posters from the Gutenberg museum as a way to introduce my curious daughter (age 9) to the world's writing systems.

worldswritingsystems.org/poste

However, I wondered if anyone on here knows of any other (age-appropriate) resources in book (prreferred) or poster form that I should consider?

cc @Endangeredalphabets

Boosts appreciated.

www.worldswritingsystems.orgThe World’s Writing Systems : The Posters
#AskFedi#writing#alphabet
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