Hieroglyphic Luwian: An Introduction with Original Texts - download pdf or read online

By Annick Payne

ISBN-10: 3447102160

ISBN-13: 9783447102162

This e-book has been written for rookies learning all alone and assumes no earlier wisdom of the topic. It starts off with the background of the language and its discovery and decipherment as much as the current day. It incorporates a basically established concise grammar which deals a lot unique fabric on Luwian syntax. Twelve examining workouts introduce the fundamental grammatical ideas and are conscientiously graded to permit the reader to accumulate a data of universal indicators and vocabulary in addition to giving a extensive advent to Hieroglyphic Luwian literature. Grammatical research, statement, vocabulary notes and a revision part accompany each one textual content. also, the ebook contains the main vast updated vocabulary on hand and an entire signal record. either will serve the reader as beneficial instruments for any more examine of the topic.

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The soft sign This is the letter ; (transliterated to ’), and it doesn’t have a sound. Its only mission in life is to make the preceding consonant soft. This sound is very important in Russian because it can change the meaning of a word. ” See how important the soft sign is? So, here’s how you can make consonants soft: 1. Say the consonant — for example, l, t, or d. Note where your tongue is. What you should feel is that the tip of your tongue is touching the ridge of your upper teeth and the rest of the tongue is hanging in the mouth like a hammock in the garden on a nice summer day.

You also Chapter 2: The Nitty Gritty: Basic Russian Grammar and Numbers discover how to change the ending of nouns and pronouns depending on their function in a sentence and how to form plurals of nouns. Getting the lowdown on the gender of nouns A noun can be a person, an animal, a place, a thing, an event (Easter, funeral), an idea (truth, virtue), or even a feeling (envy, love). Unlike English nouns, every Russian noun has what’s called a grammatical gender: either masculine, feminine, or neuter.

Knigi (knee-gee; book) is in the genitive case because the book’s absence is at issue. Russian uses genitive case after many common prepositions, such as okolo (oh-kuh-luh; near), u (oo; by, by the side of), mimo (mee-muh; past), iz (ees; out of), vmyesto (vmyes-tuh; instead of), and byez (byes; without). For more info on prepositions, see Chapter 15. Accusative case The accusative case mainly indicates a direct object, which is the object of the action of the verb in a sentence. For example, in the sentence Ya lyublyu russkij yazyk (yah lyu-blyu roo-skeey ee-zihk; I love Russian), the phrase russkij yazyk is in the accusative case because it’s the direct object.

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