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Chapter 07
Ancient Tibet - History and Culture
Part Three : The Empire
CRETE PO hjeroglyphs
Ancient Scripts Writing in the form of hieroglyphics, cuneiform, and pictographs was first developed in several centers of civilization in the ancient world beginning about 3000 B.C. Eventually alphabetic scripts arose in the Middle East and spread to the Greeks and Romans. Some of the Indian scripts may have been modelled on an alphabet from the Middle East; some scholars think Indian Brahmi script developed from the ancient Harappan script, which has not yet been deciphered.
Semitic syllabary develops 1500 B.C. Gives rise to alphabets
nomads
EGYPT hieroglyphs
MESOPOTAMIA pictographs cuneiform
HARAPPA y pictographs
CHINA pictographs
Indian Ocean
Bay of Bengal
TURKISH EMPIRE
TURKISH EMPIRES
Sogdian scripts
Indian Script for Tibetan The Tibetan alphabet was based upon one of the Indian scripts in use during the seventh century A.D, when Srong-btsan-sgam-po commissioned chief minister Thon-rni Sambhota to devise writing for the spoken language of Tibet. Ancient Indian scripts in - eluded Kharosthi, Brahmi, and related scripts such as those in the Gupta style. Indian models were also used to develop scripts for languages in southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, and in some Central Asian states.
Aramaic scripts from Middle
KHOTAN
East
TIBET
CHINA
Indian
scripts
SOUTHEAST
ASIA
OŚRI LANKA
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