The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters, Volume 1Leeters *The Phoenician alphabets * The Armanean alphabets * The South Semitic alphabets * The greek alphabet * Alphabets of Hellenic Ocean * The Iranian alphabet * Indian alphabet... |
Contents
THE INVENTORS OF WRITING | 1 |
The Chinese Characters | 25 |
The Japanese Syllabaries | 33 |
The Cuneiform Writing | 39 |
The Egyptian Hieroglyphics | 55 |
THE ORIGIN OF THE ALPHABET | 70 |
The Alphabetic Tradition | 83 |
The Papyrus Prisse | 92 |
The Punic Alphabet | 226 |
The Alphabet of Israel | 230 |
THE ARAMEAN ALPHABETS 1 Aram | 245 |
Nineveh and the Satrapies | 252 |
Egypt | 259 |
Palmyra | 263 |
Hebrew | 268 |
Syriac | 283 |
Identification of the Egyptian Prototypes of the Semitic | 98 |
Objections to de Rouges Hypothesis | 116 |
The Chronological Conditions | 132 |
The Geographical Probabilities | 147 |
The Primitive Letters | 158 |
THE PHOENICIAN ALPHABET PAGE 1 The Two Types of the Phoenician Alphabet | 197 |
The Inscriptions of the First Epoch | 206 |
The Inscriptions of the Second Epoch | 220 |
Mongolian | 297 |
Arabic | 312 |
THE SOUTH SEMITIC ALPHABETS 1 Affiliation of the South Semitic Alphabets | 335 |
The Thamudite Inscriptions of Safa | 342 |
The Himyaritic or Sabean Alphabet | 345 |
The Ethiopic Alphabet | 349 |
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