Associations to the word «Paleography»

Wiktionary

PALEOGRAPHY, noun. (US) The study of old or ancient forms of writing.
PALEOGRAPHY, noun. (US) Ancient scripts or forms of writing themselves, as uncial, scriptio continua, or methods of using papyrus scrolls.
PALEOGRAPHY, noun. (obsolete) Paleogeography.

Dictionary definition

PALEOGRAPHY, noun. The study of ancient forms of writing (and the deciphering of them).

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky