The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters, Volume 1Kegan Paul, Trench, 1883 |
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5th century Accadian acrologic aleph ancient Arabic Arabic alphabet Aramean Aramean alphabet Aryan Assyrian cuneiform ayin Baal Lebanon Babylonian century B.C. cheth Chinese coins column consonants cuneiform cuneiform writing daleth denote derived dynasty early Egypt Egyptian hieroglyphic empire employed Ethiopic evidence Ewald exhibited facsimile gimel graphic system Greek alphabet guttural Hence Hieratic Hieratic characters Hieratic forms Hieratic prototype Hieratic writing Himyaritic homophones Hyksos ideograms ideographic inscription instance invented Israel Japanese kaph king Kufic language Lenormant means Moabite stone modern Mongolian monuments names Neskhi Nestorian origin palæographic Papyrus Papyrus Prisse period Persian Phoenician alphabet phonetic phonograms picture writing possess probably Qoph records reign represented resemblance resh Roman Rougé Rouge's Sabean samekh script Semitic alphabet Semitic letters Semitic words shin Sidonian South Semitic square Hebrew syllabary syllabic signs symbols Syriac Syriac alphabet teth tion traced transliterated tribes tsade vowel sounds written zayin