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    Antoine Isaac, Baron Silvestre de Sacy (French: [sasi]; 21 September 1758 – 21 February 1838), was a French nobleman, linguist and orientalist. His son...
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  • Silvestre (1871–1921), Spanish military general Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838), French linguist and orientalist Paulo Sérgio Silvestre do...
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    Doing so proved difficult, despite halting progress made by Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy and Johan David Åkerblad. Young, building on their work, observed...
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    Silvestre de Sacy (17 October 1801 – 14 February 1879) was a French journalist. He was born in Paris, the son of the linguist Antoine-Isaac Silvestre...
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    Demotic (Egyptian) (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    deciphered before the hieroglyphs, starting with the efforts of Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy. Scholars were eventually able to translate the hieroglyphs...
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    Decipherment of cuneiform (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Avestan, one of the ancient Iranian languages. With this basis, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy was able to start the study of Middle Persian in 1792–93, during...
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    similarities with the later Coptic script. French Orientalist Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy had been discussing this work with Åkerblad when, in 1801,...
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    1800–1823: Louis Lefèvre‑Gineau 1824–1838: Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy 1838–1840: Louis Thénard 1840–1848: Jean-Antoine Letronne 1848–1852: Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire...
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  • Translated from the French rendering of French orientalist Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838). Account of Egypt (1800). Arabic document first...
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  • alphabet 1754 Jean-Jacques Barthélemy Phoenician alphabet 1758 Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy Pahlavi script 1791 Jean-François Champollion Egyptian Hieroglyphs...
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