On one of the walls, Cromwell spotted a series of inscribed words: "God is love.
The outspoken Erdogan continued, challenging his opponents' contention that Ottoman Turkish was a dead language, inscribed in folios and mausoleums.
In the gallery's front window, images skitter across the glazed surface of Carol Hunt's untitled canvas, in which Chinese lettering, calligraphic markings and inscribed textures communicate in several languages.
Wrapped around the wheat stalks is a red and green ribbon bearing the colors of the flag of Belarus; the ribbon meets at the base of the emblem, where the name Republic of Belarus (Рэспублiка Беларусь) is inscribed in gold in the Belarusian language.
The artifacts, which were handed back personally by the director of the institute, Gil Stein, in May, form part of a collection of tens of thousands of inscribed tablets, written in the obscure Elamite language, excavated by researchers from the Oriental Institute in 1933 at Persepolis, the ancient capital of the Persian Empire.
Drawing on ancient inscribed artifacts, Forster and Toth compiled 35 words in English, Latin, ancient Greek, the modern Celtic tongues, and Gaulish, an extinct Celtic language once spoken in France.
Among the earliest records of the language are more than 2,000 ostraca (inscribed pottery fragments), largely records of wine deliveries dating from the 1st century bce, which were discovered in excavations (1949 58) at Nisa, an Arsacid capital near modern Ashgabat in Turkmenistan.
Literacy, capacity to communicate using inscribed, printed, or electronic signs or symbols for representing language.
They are inscribed - or engraved, stamped or embossed - with various simple pictures and writing in a variety of languages including Greek and Old Hebrew.
The language spoken during this period is thought to be Southwestern Brythonic, but only one or two inscribed stones survive in Somerset from this period.
