05.05.05

Guarani

Posted in Language, Military, Philately at 2:40 pm by Mithridates

• A term paper giving an overview of Guarani
• A German-Spanish-Guarani dictionary
• A Guarani-English dictionary
• Learn Guarani online (very sloooow site, in Paraguay)
• Another paper, Post-Stroessner Language Planning in Paraguay

Update: A very nice handbook of Paraguayan philately, with a discussion of Paraguay’s military history.

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04.18.05

Tahitian

Posted in Language, Philately at 9:31 pm by Mithridates

• Tahitian language and phrases
• BYUH Tahitian Language Lessons
• Some history of the Tahitian language
• Wikipedia’s entry on Tahitian
• Tahitian Dictionary
• An unusual display of the Polynesian language tree
• Philatelic history of Tahiti

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04.11.05

Monday Miscellany II

Posted in Books, Computing, Culture, History, Language, Philately at 11:34 am by Mithridates

• Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture, an online exhbit at the Library of Congress
• Morfablog, a weblog (mainly) in Welsh
• Some examples of writing in Baybayin, an ancient script of the Philippines
• Czechoslovak philately; another site with nice galleries of Czechoslovak stamps - the first issues show Hradcany Castle.
• NPR story about Donald Knuth
• Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera - a particular favorite

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