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

5th century Accadian acrologic aleph ancient Arabic alphabet Aramean Aramean alphabet Aryan Assyrian cuneiform ayin Baal Lebanon Babylonian beth century B.C. cheth Chinese coins consonants cuneiform cuneiform writing curious cursive daleth denote derived distinct dynasty early Egypt Egyptian hieroglyphic empire employed Estrangelo Ethiopic evidence Ewald exhibited facsimile Gesenius gimel Greek alphabet guttural Hence Hieratic Hieratic characters Hieratic prototype Himyaritic homophones Hyksos ideograms ideographic inscription instance invention Israel Japanese kaph king Kufic language Lenormant means Moabite stone modern Mongolian monuments Nabathean names Neskhi Nestorian Nineveh obtained origin palæographic Palmyrene Papyrus Prisse period Persian Phoenician alphabet phonetic phonograms picture writing possess primitive probably qoph records reign represented resemblance resh Roman Rougé Rouge's Sabean samekh script Semitic alphabet Semitic letters Semitic words shin Sidonian square Hebrew syllabary syllabic signs symbols Syriac alphabet teth tion traced transliterated tribes tsade vowel sounds written zayin