BabelStone Blog

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Scripts and Languages

Jurchen

• One to Twenty in Jurchen, Khitan and Lute [2012-12-18]
• Today's Date in Old Mandarin, Middle Mongolian, Manchu, Jurchen, Khitan, Khitan and Tangut [2013-03-24]
• Jurchen Geography [2013-04-28]
• Jurchen Inscription on the River Arkhara [2018-03-31]
• Marble Slips from the Central Capital of the Jin Dynasty [2023-01-22]

Khitan

• The Mystery of Two Khitan Scripts [2010-12-26]
• A Mirror on the Khitan Language [2011-07-11]
• Oh, How the Gods Mock Us! [2011-10-22]
• Khitan Seals [2012-10-16]
• One to Twenty in Jurchen, Khitan and Lute [2012-12-18]
• Fake Khitania [2013-01-01]
• Today's Date in Old Mandarin, Middle Mongolian, Manchu, Jurchen, Khitan, Khitan and Tangut [2013-03-24]
• Khitan Geography Part 1 [2013-05-01]
• Khitan Geography Part 2 [2013-05-11]
• A Chronology of Khitan Inscriptions [2014-01-01]
• Accounts of Khitan Life and Language [2014-05-05]
• Khitan Fragment from the Liao Mausoleum at Yiwulü Mountain [2018-11-29]
• Khitan Fragments from the Tomb of Yelü Pugu [2018-12-08]

Manchu

• Manchu Letter LHA [2006-10-22]
• Today's Date in Old Mandarin, Middle Mongolian, Manchu, Jurchen, Khitan, Khitan and Tangut [2013-03-24]

Mongolian

• Today's Date in Old Mandarin, Middle Mongolian, Manchu, Jurchen, Khitan, Khitan and Tangut [2013-03-24]

Ogham

• A Throng of Fifty Warriors Routed by a Single Scholar : An Exercise in Ogham Decipherment [2008-05-15]
• Byrhtferth's Ogham Enigma [2008-12-25]
• The Ogham Stones of Cornwall and Devon [2009-11-08]
• The Ogham Stones of Elsewhere [2009-11-12]
• The Penwith Ogham Stone [2009-11-15]
• The Ogham Stones of Wales [2010-03-01]
• The Ogham Stones of the Isle of Man [2011-06-30]
• The Ogham Stones of Scotland [2013-06-08]

Phags-pa

• Christian Tombstones of Zayton [2006-11-25]
• Phags-pa Fonts 1 : BabelStone Phags-pa Book [2006-12-21]
• Phags-pa Shaping Behaviour [2006-12-23]
• Phags-pa Alternate Letters YA, SHA, HA and FA [2006-12-23]
• Phags-pa Fonts 2 : BabelStone Phags-pa Tibetan [2006-12-24]
• Phags-pa Fonts 3 : BabelStone Phags-pa Seal [2006-12-29]
• More about Phags-pa Seal Script [2006-12-31]
• The Emperor's Treasure [2007-05-04]
• Marco Polo and the Universal Script [2007-11-09]
• Fragments from a Dead City [2011-10-26]
• Phags-pa Graffiti [2011-11-04]
• Phags-pa Uyghur Seals [2011-11-11]
• Today's Date in Old Mandarin, Middle Mongolian, Manchu, Jurchen, Khitan, Khitan and Tangut [2013-03-24]

Tangut

• Tangut Coins [2007-01-29]
• Tangut Chess [2008-07-24]
• How Complex is Tangut ? [2009-08-28]
• Untangling the Web of Characters [2010-04-27]
• Prototyping Tangut IMEs, or Why Windows 7 Sucks [2010-05-24]
• The Myth of the Tangut Ritual Language [2011-08-29]
• Diligently Carved in Tangut [2011-10-29]
• Tangut in Tibetan [2011-12-22]
• One to Ten in Tangut and Flute [2012-12-27]
• Today's Date in Old Mandarin, Middle Mongolian, Manchu, Jurchen, Khitan, Khitan and Tangut [2013-03-24]
• A Fragment of Tangut Geography [2013-04-10]
• Two Tangut Families Part 1 : Laosuo [2015-01-11]
• Two Tangut Families Part 2 : Xiaoli Qianbu [2015-01-29]
• Hundred Dharmas of Mahayana [2015-04-21]
• A Web of Tangut Catalogues [2015-04-27]
• Grains of Gold [2015-05-30]
• Ode to the Tangut Tripitaka : Part 1 [2015-07-03]
• Tangut Texts for Sale [2015-08-03]
• Preliminary Analysis of a Newly-Discovered Tangut Wordbook [2015-08-11]
• Rediscovery of a Lost Tangut Manuscript [2018-04-15]
• Tangut Discoveries at the Shanzuigou Caves [2020-07-07]
• Tangut Paizi [2020-11-27]

Tibetan

• Tibetan Extensions 1 : Astrological Pebble Symbols [2005-11-12]
• When is a Swastika not a Swastika ? [2006-02-15]
• Stacking Diacritics and Complex Tibetan Stacks [2006-02-23]
• Tibetan Extensions 2 : Balti [2006-08-31]
• Precomposed Tibetan Part 1 : BrdaRten [2006-09-14]
• Precomposed Tibetan Part 2 : Stuck in the PUA [2006-09-17]
• Tibetan Shorthand Contractions [2006-09-20]
• Numbers that Don't Add Up : Tibetan Half Digits [2007-04-07]

Uighur

• Phags-pa Graffiti [2011-11-04]
• Phags-pa Uyghur Seals [2011-11-11]
• Fragments of Tang Inscriptions from Karabalgasun [2019-10-01]

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Zhang Zhung

• Zhang Zhung Scripts [2007-05-27]
• BabelStone Tibetan sMar-chen [2007-05-30]
• Zhang Zhung Royal Seal [2008-01-01]

On Beyond Zebra!

• The Rules for Long S [2006-06-12]
• The Long and the Short of the Letter S [2006-07-09]
• R Rotunda Part 1 [2006-07-23]
• R Rotunda Part 2 [2006-07-24]
• What's That ? [2006-07-30]
• Welsh Double D [2006-08-13]
• Welsh Double L [2006-08-19]
• Antedating the Caron [2009-08-16]

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Software

BabelMap and BabelPad

• BabelMap Version 1.11.4 [2005-11-16]
• BabelPad Version 1.9.3 [2005-11-16]
• BabelMap Version 1.11.6 [2005-12-22]
• BabelMap Version 5.0.0.1 [2006-07-15]
• BabelMap 5.0.0.2 : Unicode in Colour [2006-08-27]
• BabelMap Version 5.1.0.0 [2008-04-06]
• BabelMap Version 5.2.0.0 [2009-10-01]
• BabelPad Version 5.2.0.0 [2009-12-13]
• BabelPad and BabelMap Version 6.0.0.0 [2010-10-24]
• BabelPad and BabelMap Version 6.1.0 [2012-05-23]
• BabelPad Version 6.3.0 [2013-10-05]

Fonts

• Phags-pa Fonts 1 : BabelStone Phags-pa Book [2006-12-21]
• Phags-pa Fonts 2 : BabelStone Phags-pa Tibetan [2006-12-24]
• Phags-pa Fonts 3 : BabelStone Phags-pa Seal [2006-12-29]
• BabelStone Tibetan sMar-chen [2007-05-30]
• Pigpen and Fowl Fonts [2008-02-06]
• Moon Runes and Goblin Alphabet [2009-01-01]

Windows and Internet Explorer

• Vertical Layout in IE8 [2008-10-13]
• Prototyping Tangut IMEs, or Why Windows 7 Sucks [2010-05-24]
• Internet Explorer 11: Two Steps Forward and Two Steps Back [2013-11-14]

Javascript Tools

• Unicode 6.0 — One character at a time [2011-04-16]
• Unicode 6.0 — One block at a time [2011-05-08]

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Unicode

General

• How many Unicode characters are there? [2005-11-24]
• Unicode Character Names Part 1 : the Good the Bad and the Ugly [2006-03-25]
• Unicode Character Names Part 2 : A Name is for Life [2006-03-25]
• Unicode Character Names Part 3 : A Name by any other Name [2006-03-26]
• Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 [2007-06-05]
• The Secret Life of Variation Selectors [2007-06-28]

Versions

• What's new in Unicode 5.0 ? [2005-11-26]
• What's new in Unicode 5.1 ? [2007-06-08]
• What's new in Unicode 5.2 ? [2008-04-27]
• What's new in Unicode 6.0 ? [2009-11-01]
• What's new in Unicode 6.1 ? [2011-06-13]
• What's new in Unicode 6.2 ? [2012-05-26]
• What's new in Unicode 6.3 ? [2013-01-08]
• What's new in Unicode 7.0 ? [2013-10-20]
• What's new in Unicode 8.0 ? [2015-04-01]
• What's new in Unicode 9.0 ? [2016-01-01]

CJK

• Vanished in the Twinkling of an Eye [2007-01-08]
• Numbers that Don't Add Up : U+5EFE [2007-04-01]
• CJK Unified Ideographs : To Infinity and Beyond [2007-07-02]
• Old Hanzi [2007-07-08]
• A Brief History of CJK-C [2007-06-21]
• CJK-B Case Study #1 : U+272F0 [2007-12-02]
• A Modest Proposal to Encode Ultra-Simplified Chinese Characters [2009-10-10]

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Board Games

Go (Weiqi)

• Tibetan Go [2006-03-04]
• The Origins of Go [2006-03-04]
• Playing Go on a Chinese Chess Board [2008-07-12]
• A Pictorial History of the Game of Go [2009-04-15]

Liubo

• The Lost Game of Liubo Part 1 : Funerary Statuettes [2009-05-10]
• The Lost Game of Liubo Part 2 : Pictures of People playing Liubo [2009-07-12]
• The Lost Game of Liubo Part 3 : Pictures of Immortals playing Liubo [2009-08-08]
• The Lost Game of Liubo Part 4 : Game Boards and Equipment [2011-01-01]

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Humanities

Art

• 72 Views of the Tower of Babel [2007-01-01]
• 72 More Views of the Tower of Babel [2008-12-31]
• 72 Modern Views of the Tower of Babel [2009-01-01]

Literature

• Chimps with Clogs [2006-05-01]
• The Grand Old Trade of Basket-Making [2006-06-04]

Music

• One to Twenty in Jurchen, Khitan and Lute [2012-12-18]
• One to Ten in Tangut and Flute [2012-12-27]

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Antiquities

Books

• The Morrison Collection : Lost and Found [2007-03-18]

Coins

• Barbarians at the Breakfast Table [2006-05-23]
• Zhida Tongbao [2007-01-10]

Inscribed Stones

• The Legend of the Babel Stone [2006-04-01]
• Mani Stones in Mani Scripts [2006-11-05]
• Christian Tombstones of Zayton [2006-11-25]
• A Throng of Fifty Warriors Routed by a Single Scholar : An Exercise in Ogham Decipherment [2008-05-15]
• The Ogham Stones of Cornwall and Devon [2009-11-08]
• The Ogham Stones of Elsewhere [2009-11-12]
• The Penwith Ogham Stone [2009-11-15]
• The Ogham Stones of Wales [2010-03-01]
• The Ogham Stones of the Isle of Man [2011-06-30]

Manuscripts

• Byrhtferth's Ogham Enigma [2008-12-25]
• Oh, How the Gods Mock Us! [2011-10-22]
• Hundred Dharmas of Mahayana [2015-04-21]

Portable Antiquities

• Souvenirs from China [2008-09-27]
• The Staffordshire Hoard : Anglo-Saxon Epigraphy and the Manuscript Tradition [2009-12-25]

Seals

• Christmas Presents [2006-12-30]
• Caveat Emptor : A Buyers' Guide to Seals [2008-01-13]
• Phags-pa Uyghur Seals [2011-11-11]
• Khitan Seals [2012-10-16]

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