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Acum 1 zi · Sumerian (Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized: eme-gir 15, lit. ''native language'') was the language of ancient Sumer.It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 2900 BC.It is a local language isolate that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that is modern-day Iraq.. Akkadian, a Semitic language, gradually replaced Sumerian as the primary spoken language in the ...
Acum 1 zi · Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (/ ˌ d ɛ z ɪ ˈ d ɪər i ə s ɪ ˈ r æ z m ə s /; Dutch: [ˌdeːziˈdeːriʏs eˈrɑsmʏs]; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus; 28 October c.1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.Through his vast number of translations, books, essays, prayers and letters, he is considered ...
Acum 1 zi · Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sign languages are full-fledged natural languages with their own grammar and lexicon. [1]
Acum 1 oră · I use a dramaturgical sensibility, that is, a practical aesthetic philosophy (Chemers 2010, 11), to meditate on how decolonisation in a Western university depends on how historically minoritised staff experience their new contexts, including the members of the global majority. Footnote 1 EF’s Visit to a Small Planet (Fuchs 2004) allows me to lay the groundwork for analysis of a new text or ...
