The benefits of learning sign language are numerous; more expressive, engages constant eye contact, helpful for the deaf/hearing impaired and people with Autism Spectrum Disorder, talking under water, from a distance or even for having a private conversation in a public place.
In today’s increasingly interconnected and interdependent world, proficiency in other languages is a vital skill that gives you the opportunity to engage with the world in a more immediate and meaningful way. The many cognitive benefits of learning languages are undeniable with advantages like improved memory, problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, enhanced concentration, ability to multitask, and better listening skills. Being bilingual or multilingual also helps to stave off mental aging and cognitive decline.
With my learning book series, I intend to make learning fun with simplicity and creativity. In this book you will learn the American Manual Alphabet and American Sign Language.
What makes my language learning books unique:
A first of its kind book introducing new learning
It incorporates learning into relaxation and fun
All the illustrations are done by hand
A Study chart and Fun Facts
Includes essential signing expressions
Unique hand drawn patterns
Incorporated Test your mind, practice and notes sheets
By the 8th century BC, the Phrygians emerged as a strong political entity and their King Midas was mentioned in the Assyrian records as King of the Mushki. They were a prosperous nation that established a great Kingdom during the Iron age in Anatolia.
The Phrygian language is one of the oldest and least attested Indo-European languages. This script was usually written from left to right.
Coptic language is an Afro-Asiatic language. Spoken in Egypt from about the 2nd century CE, it represents the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language. In contrast to earlier stages of Egyptian, which used hieroglyphic writing, hieratic script, or demotic script, Coptic was written in the Greek alphabet, supplemented by seven letters borrowed from demotic writing.
Coptic also replaced the religious terms and expressions of earlier Egyptian with words borrowed from Greek.
The Lycian alphabet was used during 500-330 BC, to write the Lycian language of the Asia Minor region of Lycia. It was one of the ancient Anatolian languages.
Evidence for Lycian consists of more than 150 inscriptions on stone, some 200 on coins, and a handful on other objects. An extension of the Greek alphabet, with half a dozen additional letters for sounds not found in Greek, it was largely similar to the Lydian and the Phrygian alphabets.
Also known as the Older Futhark, Old Futhark, or Germanic Futhark, the Elder Futhark is the oldest form of the runic alphabets.
It was a writing system used by Germanic peoples for Northwest Germanic dialects in the Migration Period. Inscriptions are found on artifacts including jewelry, amulets, plate ware, tools, and weapons, as well as runestones in Scandinavia, from the 2nd to the 10th centuries.
According to Norse mythology, the runes weren’t invented but rather given to Odin as a divine gift, after he sacrificed himself by hanging from a tree for 9 days and nights.
Introduced in the 20th century, Neo-Tifinagh is a modern alphabetical derivative of the traditional script. It is an abjad script used to write the Berber languages. Tifinagh is believed to be a descendant of the ancient Libyan script.
The Tifinagh alphabet (“Lybico-berber”) has been used by the Berber speaking people in North Africa and the Canary Islands at least from the third century B.C. up to the third century A.D.
Modern standard writing direction is left-to-right, however earlier inscriptions are known to be from right-to-left, and sometimes vertically from bottom-to-top. The letters illustrated here are the IRCAM version of Neo-Tifinagh.