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Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages and Foreign Graphic Systems to a Uniform Orthography in European Letters (2nd rev.ed. London, 1863)
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This new edition of Carl Richard Lepsius’s Standard Alphabet reproduces the text of the second, enlarged, edition of 1863. The extensive Introduction by J. Alan Kemp places it in its historical setting and provides comments on the phonetic basis for the Alphabet and the notation.
[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 5] 1981. x, 99, xvii, 336 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 October 2011
Published online on 3 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Prelim pages | pp. i*–iv*
- Preface | pp. v*–5
- Use of Symbols | pp. vi*–6
- Contents | pp. vii*–viii*
- I. Introduction to Lepsius's ‘Standard Alphabet’
- Portrait of Carl Richard Lepsius | pp. x*–10
- Introductory | pp. 1*–1
- 1.0 Carl Richard Lepsius, 1810-1884 | pp. 2*–8*
- 2.0 Universal alphabets | pp. 9*–47*
- 2.1 The problems of devising a universal alphabet
- 2.2 Early attempts to provide a universal alphabet
- 2.3 Devices for supplementing the roman alphabet
- 2.4 The 18th century
- 2.5 Oriental Scripts
- 2.6 The Volney prize and Schleiermacher
- 2.7 Alphabets for unwritten languages
- 2.8 Lepsius and the Alphabetical Conference of 1854
- 2.9 The publication of Lepsius's Standard Alphabet
- 2.10 Phonetic scripts in Britain
- 2.11 Phonetic scripts in America: S.S. Haldeman
- 2.12 Phonetic scripts in Germany
- 2.13 Summary of the characteristics of the schemes described
- 3.0 Lepsius's Standard Alphabet | pp. 48*–75*
- 3.1 General principles of description
- 3.2 The vowels
- 3.3 The consonants
- 3.4 Notation
- 3.5 The description of languages in Part II
- 3.6 Lepsius's classification of languages
- 4.0 Universal Alphabets after Lepsius | pp. 76*–78*
- 5.0 Conclusion | pp. 79*–80*
- Bibliography | pp. 81*–87*
- Richard Lepsius: List of publications | pp. 88*–100*
- II. Richard Lepsius: Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages and Foreign Graphic Systems to a Uniform Orthography in European Letters
- Advertisement to the First Edition | pp. 3–10
- Advertisement to the Second Edition | pp. 11–14
- Contents | pp. 15–17
- Introduction to the Second Edition | pp. 1–20
- First Part | pp. 21–84
- Second Part | pp. 85–324
- Index of Subjects | pp. 325–328
- Index of Persons | pp. 329–332
- Index of Languages | pp. 333–336
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