波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp
@schrift-sprache.bsky.social
主に文字・言語・デジタル化資料関係の備忘録 || Notes on languages & scripts, digitized materials &c. Mostly posting in 変体英文. || Kulturelles Rāmenprogramm. Irgendwas mit Schrift.
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🚨 New in the Cambridge Elements in Phonology series 🚨
'Phonology in Language Documentation' by Gabriela Caballero & Laura McPherson is out now and free to read until December 5th.
https://cup.org/4ptSdd8
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦
'Phonology in Language Documentation' by Gabriela Caballero & Laura McPherson is out now and free to read until December 5th.
https://cup.org/4ptSdd8
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦
Phonology in Language Documentation
Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Phonology in Language Documentation
cup.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
🚨 New in the Cambridge Elements in Phonology series 🚨
'Phonology in Language Documentation' by Gabriela Caballero & Laura McPherson is out now and free to read until December 5th.
https://cup.org/4ptSdd8
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦
'Phonology in Language Documentation' by Gabriela Caballero & Laura McPherson is out now and free to read until December 5th.
https://cup.org/4ptSdd8
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦
Wait, what? 😜
"However, he soon left linguistics for more important things—literature."
"However, he soon left linguistics for more important things—literature."
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Wait, what? 😜
"However, he soon left linguistics for more important things—literature."
"However, he soon left linguistics for more important things—literature."
No longer under embargo since Friday: 🤓🙏
Sarah Jessi Bramao-Ramos 2023 Manchu-language Books in Qing China @ nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.IN...
Sarah Jessi Bramao-Ramos 2023 Manchu-language Books in Qing China @ nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.IN...
Manchu-language Books in Qing China
It has long been assumed that the Manchu language, the native language of the Qing rulers, dwindled to insignificance by the nineteenth century. This dissertation counters this narrative through an ex...
nrs.harvard.edu
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
No longer under embargo since Friday: 🤓🙏
Sarah Jessi Bramao-Ramos 2023 Manchu-language Books in Qing China @ nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.IN...
Sarah Jessi Bramao-Ramos 2023 Manchu-language Books in Qing China @ nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.IN...
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Did you know our new digital library is up and running, with loads of digitised content from our Missionary collections, particularly CWM and MMS? Find it all here: https://soas.quartexcollections.com/archives/missionary-archives?cid= #EYAReligion
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Did you know our new digital library is up and running, with loads of digitised content from our Missionary collections, particularly CWM and MMS? Find it all here: https://soas.quartexcollections.com/archives/missionary-archives?cid= #EYAReligion
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Today I stumbled upon an open-access article in the new edited volume "Connected Philology" by someone who has the exact same name as me and also works at the Université de Lausanne. Very suspicious 👀
#shamelessselfpromotion
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
#shamelessselfpromotion
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Connected Philology
Even though the similarities of philological methods and traditions across various cultures have been the subject of scholarly research, the reasons for these occurrences usually remain obscure. The p...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Today I stumbled upon an open-access article in the new edited volume "Connected Philology" by someone who has the exact same name as me and also works at the Université de Lausanne. Very suspicious 👀
#shamelessselfpromotion
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
#shamelessselfpromotion
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
November 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Look at this V-like thing for Tibetan s(a) ས in the word gser གསེར 'gold' ... 🤓
< Klaproth 1800 @ books.google.de/books?id=Y4c...
< Klaproth 1800 @ books.google.de/books?id=Y4c...
November 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Look at this V-like thing for Tibetan s(a) ས in the word gser གསེར 'gold' ... 🤓
< Klaproth 1800 @ books.google.de/books?id=Y4c...
< Klaproth 1800 @ books.google.de/books?id=Y4c...
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（試しに DeepSeek-OCR に江戸期の康熙字典の版本を読ませてみたが、訓点無視して漢文読んでくれるというか、NDL古典籍OCRと比べてこいつは古典中国語を知ってるという感じがする（NDL古典籍OCRが日本語知ってる感じがするのと同様に）。ただ、割注はダメっぽい。テキストの画像化というのが効いてるかどうかは判らないが、画像の傾きにはシビアかもしれない。やっぱ、漢文のOCRには古典中国語の言語モデルが重要ってことかな?）
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
（試しに DeepSeek-OCR に江戸期の康熙字典の版本を読ませてみたが、訓点無視して漢文読んでくれるというか、NDL古典籍OCRと比べてこいつは古典中国語を知ってるという感じがする（NDL古典籍OCRが日本語知ってる感じがするのと同様に）。ただ、割注はダメっぽい。テキストの画像化というのが効いてるかどうかは判らないが、画像の傾きにはシビアかもしれない。やっぱ、漢文のOCRには古典中国語の言語モデルが重要ってことかな?）
Richard Sproat: "The Relevance of Heraldry to Writing Systems" @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF4c...
Many thanks for the upload! 🙏 Couldn't attend the talk on that day unfortunately.
Many thanks for the upload! 🙏 Couldn't attend the talk on that day unfortunately.
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Richard Sproat: "The Relevance of Heraldry to Writing Systems" @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF4c...
Many thanks for the upload! 🙏 Couldn't attend the talk on that day unfortunately.
Many thanks for the upload! 🙏 Couldn't attend the talk on that day unfortunately.
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Today, I had the opportunity to present my transcription of and research on long-lost letters from the first Danish Sinologist, Mourier, to Julius Klaproth right next to #武夷山, where #朱熹 built his study. Great atmosphere! #Sinology #ChineseHistory
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Today, I had the opportunity to present my transcription of and research on long-lost letters from the first Danish Sinologist, Mourier, to Julius Klaproth right next to #武夷山, where #朱熹 built his study. Great atmosphere! #Sinology #ChineseHistory
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Sir Anthony Weldon, A Cat May Look Upon a King (printed for William Roybould, at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard, 1652)
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Sir Anthony Weldon, A Cat May Look Upon a King (printed for William Roybould, at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard, 1652)
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That reminded me of Hiraiwa Yoshiyasu’s 1885 proposal to write Japanese using the components of the Ahiru script.
November 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
That reminded me of Hiraiwa Yoshiyasu’s 1885 proposal to write Japanese using the components of the Ahiru script.
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That's the library stamp we used in the old days - featuring a thriving banyan tree. It's based on the design by Thomas
and William Daniell who also designed the Society's iconic elephant emblem!
and William Daniell who also designed the Society's iconic elephant emblem!
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
That's the library stamp we used in the old days - featuring a thriving banyan tree. It's based on the design by Thomas
and William Daniell who also designed the Society's iconic elephant emblem!
and William Daniell who also designed the Society's iconic elephant emblem!
Nippomsiki Roumazi [sic] × belief in the authenticity of (an) Age of the Gods Script(s) 👍🤓
我が国にも大昔は、神字日文とて、ほとんど横文字と同じき文字のありしと聞けば、その便利たる知るべきなり。
< 南部義籌 1872 よこもじほんてびきぐさ @ dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/862478/1/9
我が国にも大昔は、神字日文とて、ほとんど横文字と同じき文字のありしと聞けば、その便利たる知るべきなり。
< 南部義籌 1872 よこもじほんてびきぐさ @ dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/862478/1/9
November 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Nippomsiki Roumazi [sic] × belief in the authenticity of (an) Age of the Gods Script(s) 👍🤓
我が国にも大昔は、神字日文とて、ほとんど横文字と同じき文字のありしと聞けば、その便利たる知るべきなり。
< 南部義籌 1872 よこもじほんてびきぐさ @ dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/862478/1/9
我が国にも大昔は、神字日文とて、ほとんど横文字と同じき文字のありしと聞けば、その便利たる知るべきなり。
< 南部義籌 1872 よこもじほんてびきぐさ @ dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/862478/1/9
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@ricciinstitutelib.bsky.social A few more photos from our scroll, Shizi chongxun 十字寵勳. We have since found out that a similar scroll was printed at the T'ou-sè-wè 土家灣 orphanage in Shanghai in 1929. This reproduction has not allowed us to determine with certainty that they are identical.
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
@ricciinstitutelib.bsky.social A few more photos from our scroll, Shizi chongxun 十字寵勳. We have since found out that a similar scroll was printed at the T'ou-sè-wè 土家灣 orphanage in Shanghai in 1929. This reproduction has not allowed us to determine with certainty that they are identical.
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Happy #WorldAnteaterDay! This Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) #SciArt is by Édouard Traviès for Charles Dessalines d'Orbigny, Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle (1849). Contributed to BHL by @ncsulibraries.bsky.social: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19538021 🧪 📖 🌎 🐜 #ILoveBHL
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Happy #WorldAnteaterDay! This Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) #SciArt is by Édouard Traviès for Charles Dessalines d'Orbigny, Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle (1849). Contributed to BHL by @ncsulibraries.bsky.social: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19538021 🧪 📖 🌎 🐜 #ILoveBHL
Was wondering about that interesting-looking round stamp (facing the title page, see ~ 0:03 in the video) for a moment -- but as it turns out it simply belongs to the RAS. Makes sense. 🤓
(Pic below < www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb1...)
(Pic below < www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb1...)
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Was wondering about that interesting-looking round stamp (facing the title page, see ~ 0:03 in the video) for a moment -- but as it turns out it simply belongs to the RAS. Makes sense. 🤓
(Pic below < www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb1...)
(Pic below < www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb1...)
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📆CrossAsia Talks | Nov. 20, 6 p.m. | Online
Prof Joan Judge: "New Conceptions: Modes of Knowing in Chinese Encyclopedias for Everyday Life" with a focus in the Wanbao quanshu
All information an be found here: sbb.berlin/anngn
@stabiberlin.bsky.social
Prof Joan Judge: "New Conceptions: Modes of Knowing in Chinese Encyclopedias for Everyday Life" with a focus in the Wanbao quanshu
All information an be found here: sbb.berlin/anngn
@stabiberlin.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
📆CrossAsia Talks | Nov. 20, 6 p.m. | Online
Prof Joan Judge: "New Conceptions: Modes of Knowing in Chinese Encyclopedias for Everyday Life" with a focus in the Wanbao quanshu
All information an be found here: sbb.berlin/anngn
@stabiberlin.bsky.social
Prof Joan Judge: "New Conceptions: Modes of Knowing in Chinese Encyclopedias for Everyday Life" with a focus in the Wanbao quanshu
All information an be found here: sbb.berlin/anngn
@stabiberlin.bsky.social
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Meet one of the oldest early printed books in our collections - a Japanese-Spanish dictionary compiled by Catholic missionaries and published in 1630 in Manila 📖
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Meet one of the oldest early printed books in our collections - a Japanese-Spanish dictionary compiled by Catholic missionaries and published in 1630 in Manila 📖
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badb s. bodb s. badb s. bodb ...
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
badb s. bodb s. badb s. bodb ...
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Shhe Arperiar Ipdzthirary ir tie Wese?
June 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Shhe Arperiar Ipdzthirary ir tie Wese?
My first exposure to these aviform 🐦 Armenian letters was through this splendid plate in Andreas Müller's Alphabeta ac notae (published in 1703, but with a lot of material that probably dates from the 1680s). 🤓
(Pics < www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb1...)
(Pics < www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb1...)
November 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
My first exposure to these aviform 🐦 Armenian letters was through this splendid plate in Andreas Müller's Alphabeta ac notae (published in 1703, but with a lot of material that probably dates from the 1680s). 🤓
(Pics < www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb1...)
(Pics < www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb1...)
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“Apuntamientos de otorgrafia”. Typo in the Spanish word for correct spelling (ortografia) in this early C18 publisher’s ad.
![Publisher’s ad to last page of a book, within border of typographical decoration. Last item: “Apuntamientos de otorgrafia[sic.], por D. Juan de Palafox”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:35zv4purjggw74fpinltgwrf/bafkreihskapw4pnmdeyxqo5cbsbeyedbjmgks4qdvdqnqovz4s2swdllyi@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“Apuntamientos de otorgrafia”. Typo in the Spanish word for correct spelling (ortografia) in this early C18 publisher’s ad.
Another 3 vols. (110-112) of the journal Acta Asiatica went online today, meaning that after almost a decade my paper on "Foreign Sources on the History of the Japanese Language" (2016) is finally accessible online: doi.org/10.69382/act... 🙏
Make sure to check out the other contributions as well!
Make sure to check out the other contributions as well!
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Another 3 vols. (110-112) of the journal Acta Asiatica went online today, meaning that after almost a decade my paper on "Foreign Sources on the History of the Japanese Language" (2016) is finally accessible online: doi.org/10.69382/act... 🙏
Make sure to check out the other contributions as well!
Make sure to check out the other contributions as well!
Sarah Bramao-Ramos 2025 "Leping’s Lessons: Considering Muwa Gisun" @ doi.org/10.3998/saks...
Leping’s Lessons: Considering <em>Muwa Gisun</em>
This article examines Muwa gisun (Plain Talk), a handwritten manuscript in the Harvard-Yenching Library and one of the most well-known examples of a Manchu learning primer, situating it within the bro...
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Sarah Bramao-Ramos 2025 "Leping’s Lessons: Considering Muwa Gisun" @ doi.org/10.3998/saks...