The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters, 第 1 巻Kegan Paul, Trench, 1883 |
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5th century 7th century acrologic aleph ancient Arabic alphabet Aramean Aramean alphabet Aryan Assyrian ayin Baal Lebanon Babylonian beth century B.C. cheth Chinese coins column consonants cuneiform cursive daleth denote derived distinct dynasty early Egypt Egyptian alphabet Egyptian hieroglyphic empire employed Estrangelo Ethiopic evidence Ewald exhibited facsimile gimel Greek alphabet guttural Hence Hieratic Hieratic characters Hieratic prototype Hieratic writing hieroglyphic writing Himyaritic homophones Hyksos ideograms ideographic inscription Israel kaph king Kufic Lagarde language Lenormant means Moabite stone modern Mongolian monuments names Neskhi Nestorian Nineveh obtained origin palæographic Palmyrene Papyrus Prisse period Persian Phœnician Phoenician alphabet phonetic phonograms picture possession primitive probably qoph reign represented resemblance resh Rougé 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
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