Sentence examples for foreign script from inspiring English sources

Is it an adaptation of a foreign script or book?

If you've learned a language with a foreign script in adulthood you may still find that speaking or mouthing the words helps you read them faster.

Starting from a foreign script known as Linear A (used in Crete to record a native language known as Minoan), the Greeks devised, toward 1500 bce at the latest, a syllabic script to record their own language.

The accident destroys the parents' marriage, in part because the wife doesn't understand her husband's obsession with a piece of paper found at the scene, written in a foreign script he eventually discovers to be Sanskrit.

Peruse a few examples of penmanship and prose styling on Letters of Note, a site that collects missives from the likes of Joan of Arc and Amelia Earheart (today, for example, they've posted a fantastically charming letter from Jane Austen to her niece; it appears to be written in an exotic foreign script but, in fact, is just coded, written backwards).

Naturally, it was unsuitable for Japan to adopt an entire foreign script such as Chinese, and Japanese thinkers began to devise a new, native script known as hiragana, which was often referred to as "women's hand," or onna-de in Japanese.

In addition to creating a parallel Clearview type family for standard design applications, he is also working on converting it into foreign scripts.

Technology has also made it easier to process foreign scripts, although there is still the danger that text will be printed in mirror image.

Georgian linguist Tamaz Gamkrelidze offers an alternate interpretation of the tradition, in the pre-Christian use of foreign scripts (alloglotography in the Aramaic alphabet) to write down Georgian texts.

The plaintiffs, aided by a conservative legal group, the Liberty Institute, contend they should be allowed to use a Veterans of Foreign Wars script dating from World War I that refers to the deceased as "a brave man" with an "abiding faith in God" and that seeks comfort from an "almighty and merciful God".

Jolie was inspired by her visits to the region as a goodwill ambassador to the UN, she said, and she was able to draw on high-level contacts in Nato and the US foreign office for script advice.