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Ogam

Autor: Stifer, David

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Ogam

Ogam

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LA CATARATA
Publicación:
01/05/2022
Colección:
AELAW BOOKLET
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Ogam is an ingenious writing system, consisting only of strokes and notches arranged along a stem-line. As a graphic system, it is among the most abstract and non-iconic writing systems ever devised for human communication. The letters consist of bundles of one to five identical straight parallel strokes, arranged in four classes or groups. Ogam is most commonly found on …

Ogam is an ingenious writing system, consisting only of strokes and notches arranged along a stem-line. As a graphic system, it is among the most abstract and non-iconic writing systems ever devised for human communication. The letters consist of bundles of one to five identical straight parallel strokes, arranged in four classes or groups. Ogam is most commonly found on the arrises of objects, typically on standing stones. Slightly under 500 ogam stones are extant today, chiefly in Ireland, but also in Wales, Scotland, England and the Isle of Man. To this can be added around two dozen portable objects. Originally invented perhaps in the 4th century to write the Primitive Irish language, the 5th7th centuries are considered to be the classical period of Ogam writing. However, the knowledge of Ogam was never lost and the tradition of its use continues until the modern day. In the high middle ages, it was even occasionally adopted into manuscript writing. This volume of the AELAW series offers an introduction to what is known about this writing system and how to interpret inscriptions in Ogam. A census of the inscrip¬tions known today and a concise bibliography round off the volume. The book contains 2 maps, 8 tables and 29 figures.
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Ogam

Editorial:
LA CATARATA
Fecha Publicación:
Formato:
Normal tapa blanda (libros)
ISBN:
978-84-1340-422-6
EAN:
9788413404226
Nº páginas:
48
Colección:
AELAW BOOKLET
Lengua:
ESPAÑOL
Alto:
21 mm
Ancho:
14 mm
Sección:
FILOLOGÍA
Sub-Sección:
Lengua
DAVID STIFTER is Professor of Old and Middle Irish at Maynooth University (Ireland) and Irish PI of the jointly AHRC-IRC funded project OG(H)AM, in partnership with colleagues from the University of Glasgow. The project has the goal of creating a comprehensive database of all examples of the use of the Ogam script from the 4th to the middle of the 19th century, be it in inscriptions on stones, on portable objects, or in manuscripts. Stifters research interests are the linguistics and philology of Old Irish and the Ancient Celtic languages (Lepontic, Gaulish, Celtiberian), and comparative Celtic and Indo-European linguistics. His book Sengoídelc. Old Irish for Beginners (Syracuse University Press 2006) is the most popular introductory textbook for Old Irish.

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