The World's First Dictionaries: Sumer to Kangxi

Sumerian lexical lists on clay, cuneiform cracked, Emperor Kangxi's 1716 dictionary and Edward Lane's Arabic-English lexicon — the birth of the dictionary long before England.

Playlist by @birth_of_dictionary

8 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Cracking Ancient Codes: Cuneiform Writing - with Irving Finkel — The Royal Institution
2. The history of looking up Chinese characters in dictionaries — NativLang
3. Misquoting the ancients - The Kangxi zidian — The Chinese Alphabet
4. Sumerian Words in English — Connor Quimby
5. The Sound of the Sumerian language (Numbers, Words & Sample Text) — ILoveLanguages!
6. First Arabic-English dictionary among lots at Islamic art auction — AP Archive
7. P. STARKEY - Edward Lane and his Arabic-English Lexicon — ASTENE Web
8. The ancient secrets revealed by deciphered tablets | BBC Ideas — BBC Ideas