The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters, Volume 2

3rd century 5th century abecedaria Abu Simbel Ægean ancient Arabic Aramean archaic Armenian Arsacidan Asoka alphabet assigned Athens Bactrian belonging Böckh book-hand boustrophedon Buddhist Chalcidian Chalcis characters Codex coins colonies consonants Coptic cursive Cypriote Cypriote syllabary Cyrillic denote derived Devanagari differentiation Dorian dynasty earlier earliest early Eastern epigraphic Etruscan Euboean evolution exhibit facsimile forms Georgian alphabets Glagolitic Greece Greek alphabet Greek letters Hellenic Indian alphabet Indo-Bactrian Ionian Iranian Irish Italy Kapur-di-giri kings Kirchhoff koppa language lapidary Latin alphabet legend ligatures Lycian Mesrob minuscule monuments Nagari numerous obtained Oghams oldest origin Oscan Palæographical Pali papyrus Pehlevi alphabet Persian Phoenician alphabet Phoenician letters plate primitive alphabet probably prototypes records retained Roman runes runic samekh Sassanian script Semitic alphabet sibilants sigma Slavonic sound syllabary symbols Table Thera tion tsade uncial vowels Western writing written