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[murderous-envy.livejournal.com]

Скажите, а каким образом выясняют, как звучали древние, мертвые языки, скажем - какой-нибудь хеттский?

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[city-of-sorrow.livejournal.com]

а вот интересно, я тут нашла такое мнение:

Sometimes there are other opinions voiced saying that in the age of technology and computerization, pictographic languages are becoming obsolete: the high number of symbols makes the input of these languages tedious and unnecessarily time-consuming. But in reality, nothing is further from truth than this. Because each character stands for an entire word and idea, inputting a single character means the input of an entire word. In English on the average it takes about four keystrokes followed by a space to input a word; using the pinyin input system in Chinese it takes about five, and the space is not required; but while typing phrases and entire sentences makes no difference in keystroke number, in Chinese it significantly reduces the number. In English, the phrase 'European Community' consists of 18 keystrokes, in Chinese it can be entered with 3.

from <a href="http://www.logoi.com/notes/pictograph.html>here</a> как-то мне этот аргумент не очень понятен. они же ведь, наверное, такими же клавиатурами пользуются, как и мы? тогда им, чтобы эти три символа ввести, наверное, порядка 18 клавиш нажать надо? захотелось пойти учиться неожиданно :)