The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters, Volume 1

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Asian Educational Services, 1991 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 800 pages
Leeters *The Phoenician alphabets * The Armanean alphabets * The South Semitic alphabets * The greek alphabet * Alphabets of Hellenic Ocean * The Iranian alphabet * Indian alphabet...

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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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