The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters, 第 1 巻K. Paul, Trench & Company, 1883 |
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7th century acrologic aleph ancient Arabic alphabet Aramean Aramean alphabet Aryan Assyrian ayin Baal Lebanon Babylonian beth century B.C. cheth Chinese coins consonants cuneiform curious cursive daleth denote derived distinct dynasty early Egypt Egyptian hieroglyphic empire employed Estrangelo Ethiopic evidence Ewald exhibited facsimile forms gimel graphic Greek alphabet guttural Hebrew alphabet Hence Hieratic Hieratic characters Hieratic prototype Hieratic writing Himyaritic homophones Hyksos ideograms ideographic inscription Israel kaph king Kufic language Lenormant means Moabite stone modern Mongolian monuments Nabathean names Neskhi Nestorian Nineveh obtained origin palæographic Palmyrene Papyrus Papyrus Prisse period Persian Phœnician Phoenician alphabet phonetic phonograms picture possession primitive probably qoph records reign represented resemblance resh Rougé Sabean samekh script Semitic alphabet Semitic letters Semitic words shin Sidonian Siloam square Hebrew syllabary syllabic signs symbols Syriac alphabet teth tion traced transliterated tribes tsade Uigur vowel sounds written zayin
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