Apr 11, 2010 19:51
y'know, nobody probably cares but me, but I must gloat:
I just wandered into the bookstore and found and bought this, in near perfect new condition for just $45! The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages Woodard, Roger D.; editor:
It's mine all mine- look what it's got-
And it has the writing systems too!
1162 pp Contents: Sumerian ;Elamite ; Hurrian ; Urartian ; Afro-Asiatic ; Egyptian and Coptic; Akkadian and Eblaite; Ugaritic ; Hebrew ;Phoenician and Punic ; Canaanite Dialects ; Aramaic; Ge'ez (Aksum) ; Old South Arabian ; Ancient North Arabian , Indo-European ; Hittite ;Luvian Palaic Lycian ; Lydian ]; Carian; Attic Greek ; Greek Dialects ; Sanskrit ; Middle Indic ; Old Persian ; Avestan ; Pahlavi ;Phrygian ; Latin ; Sabellian ; Venetic ; Continental Celtic ;; Gothic ; Early Northwest Germanic ; Classical Armenia ; Etruscan ; Early Georgian ; Ancient Chinese; Old Tamil ; Mayan ; Epi-Olmec ANNNNNND Reconstructed Ancient Languages .
I don't even know wtf hurrian is, but I can't wait to find out, so there!
I really need a happy icon for this- but I don't seem to have one:(
i'm a geek