WORÜBER REDEST DU?
System einer Universal-Sprache sowohl durch die Schrift (Pasigraphie), als auch durch die Laute (Pasilogie) durch Begriffsfixirung mittelst arabischer Zahlzeichen und deren Lautfixirung für den internationalen Verkehr.
Wien.
In Commission bei Rudolf Lechner, 1864.
First edition.
Dimensions 660 x 780 mm, folded to 220 mm.
Single sheet. A trifle creased.
A rare survival of a chart demonstrating a remarkably involved and somewhat overworked system for a universal language combining both pasigraphy (writing) and pasilogy (sound). In Paić's system individual words are replaced by concepts, each concept is assigned an Arabic numeral, and in turn each digit is assigned a sound; for example, 'Ich höre' ('I hear') is written 2074+111 and pronounced dullomaba, and 'Du hörst' (i.e. 'you hear') would be 2074+112 or dullomabe. Rhythm is also incorporated, requiring the speaker to intone concepts in specific ways, employing iambics, pyrrhicians, and dactyls. Needless to say, the complexity of the system ensured its immediate decline into obscurity, no doubt accounting for the paucity of surviving copies of this convoluted chart.
OCLC records copies at just six locations (BGE, BL, Huntington, NUK, SSB, and Warsaw).
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 32341
OCLC records copies at just six locations (BGE, BL, Huntington, NUK, SSB, and Warsaw).