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

7th century Accadian acrologic aleph ancient Arabic alphabet Aramean Aramean alphabet Aryan Assyrian ayin Baal Lebanon Babylonian belong century B.C. cheth Chinese coins cuneiform curious cursive daleth denote derived earlier early Egypt Egyptian empire employed Estrangelo Ethiopic evidence Ewald exhibited facsimile forms gimel given in column graphic Greek alphabet Hence Hieratic Hieratic characters Hieratic prototype Hieroglyphic Himyaritic homophones Hyksos ideograms ideographic inscription Israel kaph king Kufic language Lenormant means Moab Moabite stone modern Mongol Mongolian Mongolian alphabets monuments Nabathean names Neskhi Nestorian Nineveh obtained origin palæographic Palmyrene Papyrus Prisse period Persian Phoenician alphabet phonetic phonograms possess primitive probably qoph records reign represented resemblance resh Roman Rougé Rouge's Sabean samekh script Semitic alphabet Semitic letters shin Sidonian Siloam South Semitic square Hebrew syllabary syllabic signs symbols Syriac alphabet Table teth tion traced transliterated tribes tsade Uigur written zayin