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Arabia Felix; see South Arabia Arabian Province, 267 Arabic numerals, 570 Arabic-Byzantine numerals, 571 Aram Dammesheq; see Damascus Aram Naharaim, 254 Aramaic, 37, 43, 187 f., 212, 215, 219 ff, 226, 253 ff., 301 ff., 440 f., 483, and passim
Aramaic "Ideograms," 306, 312 'Araq el Emir inscription, 261 Arcot, 384
Arctic Ocean. 157 Ardha-Magadhi, 371 Argentina, 565 Argos, 455
Argyll (County), 529 Argyrokastron script, 488 Ariaramnes, 188
Ariège; see Azilian signary Arikamedu inscriptions, 341 Arimoi; see Aram
Aristophanes of Byzantium, 458
Arizona, 25
Armazi Aramaic, 259 f. Armenian, 280, 301, 320 ff., 347, 486,
568
Armenoid type, 90, 165 f. Aroko epistles, 29 f. "Arrow-headed" script; see Cuneiform "Arrow-head" type (Eastern India), 364 Arsacidae, 304 ff.; see also Pahlavi and Pahlavik Arsames, 188 Arsi; see Auni
Arslan Tash, 255 Artaxerxes, 188
Artificial international languages, 359 Artificial scripts, 181 ff., 187, 243, 407 Arya-Eluttu script, 385 Aryan India, 328 f.; see also India and
Indo-Aryan
Aryans, 197, 301, 328, 333, 342, 379, 387
Aryavarta, 378
Asante,-Twi; see Twi Asdrubal spatula, 206 Ashanti; see Twi Ashksarhabar, Ashksarhik, 320 Asia, XII, 27, 53, 82, 98, 100, 119, 121 125, 156, 166, 254, 260, 269, 286, 291, 312, 337, 356, 401 f., 422, 567 Asia Minor, Asianic, languages and scripts, 19, 77, 79, 89, 145, 165, 198, 207, 215 f., 254, 260, 269 f., 277. 280, 285, 301, 304, 449, 455, 462 ff., 314; see also under names of individual scripts
Asiago (Plateau of), 500
Asine inscription, 168
Asoka, 302, 333, 337, 339 ff., 381, 387 ff. 409, 440
Aso-mt'avruli script, 324 Assamese, 365, 367, 405, 413 ff., 419 Assur, Assyrian, 19, 36, 48 ff., 88, 91, 121, 167, 195, 204, 221, 226, 253 f.. 257, 261; see also Cuneiform writing "Assyrians," 286 Astrology, astronomy, 53, 55, 127 Ateste (Este); see Veneti Athens, 430 ff., 458, 511 Atitlan (Lake), 123
Atka Aleut; see Aleutian islands Atlantic Coast, Ocean, 178, 269 Atlantis, 19, 121 Atlas Region, 23
579
Attempts at alphabetic writing, 200,
206 ff., 214 Attic alphabet, 454 f. Atuo'l script 406 f. Augustus, 535, 538 Aulic scripts, 76 Aush, 565
Australia, 23 f., 26 ff., 33, 35, 420 Australasians, Austro-Asiatic languages, 121, 401 f., 405, 408
Austria, 125, 511 Avanti, 342
Avesta, Avestic, Avistavak, 308 f., 321 Awadhi, 368, 371 Awnjale, 30
Awra-Mazda, 186 Axum, 189, 231 Aymara (Tribe), 154 Ayudhya, 413
Azerbaijani, 289, 327, 568 Azilian signary, 22
Aztecs, Aztlan, 34, 90, 120 ff.
BA'ALAT, 200 f.
Ba'al of Lebanon, 212
Babylonian, 17, 49 ff., 88, 91 ff., 187,
197 ff., 204, 207, 216, 220, 226, 253, 290 f., 304, 333, 336; see also Cuneiform writing
Babylonian vocalization system, 264 ff. Bactrian, 301, 310; see also Kharoshthi Bactro-Pali, 301
Badami inscription, 381 Badoejs (Tribe), 423 Baffin Land, 183 Baffin's Bay, 511 Baghdad, 273, 286 Bagheli, 371 Bahamas, 25 Baihan, 225 Baikal (Lake), 314 Baiswari; see Awadhi
| SR No. | 007273 |
| Book Title | Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | David Diringer |
| Publisher | Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications |
| Publication Year | 1953 |
| Total Pages | 609 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 29 MB |