Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind

Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications

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CONTENTS Chapter
alphabet; bibliography. Early Slavonic alphabets: Cyrillic alphabet; adoption of the Cyrillic alphabet for, and its adaptation to, other languages; reform of Russian orthography; Bukvitsa; Glagolitic alphabet; origin of Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets; bibliography. Local Albanian alphabets; bibliography, Alphabets
of western Europe. IX. ETRUSCAN AND ITALIC ALPHABETS
The Etruscans. Etruscan inscriptions. Etruscan alphabet. Origin of Etruscan alphabet. Development of Etruscan script. Last stage of Etruscan alphabet. Offshoots of the Etruscan alphabet: alphabet of the Piceni; Venetic alphabet; North Etruscan alphabets; Italic scripts: Oscan alphabet; Umbrian alphabet; Siculan alphabet; Latinian alphabets: Faliscan alphabet. Bibliography, APPENDIX TO CHAPTER IX.-RUNES AND OGHAMS Runes: the name; inscriptions and written documents; runic manuscripts; inscriptions found in Sweden; Denmark and Schleswig; Norway; the British Isles; other countries: carliest inscriptions; origin of runes; the Futhark; development of runic writing: Early or Common Teutonic or Primitive Norse, Slavic runes; Anglo-Saxon or Anglian runes; Nordic or Scandinavian varieties; Hælsinge runes; the Manx runes; the dotted runes; cryptic varieties; end of runic scripts; bibliography. Oghams: the name; oghamic inscriptions; origin of the oghamns; oghamie scripts; bibliography. Pictish oghamns. the Picts; the scripti heraldry (?); bibliography. Teutonie oghamns(?); bibliography. THE LATIN ALPHABET Early Latin inscriptions. Origin of the Latin alphabet. Development of the Latin alphabet. Latin cursive scripts. Varieties of the Latin alphabet. Mediaeval varieties of the Latin alphabet: Italian semi-cursive minuscule; other continental hands; Insular or Anglo-Irish hands: Irish hand; Anglo-Saxon hand. Caroline or Carolingian hand. "Black letter" or Gothic. "Italie" and "Roman" types. Adaptations of the Latin alphabet to other languages. English alphabet. Problem of a standard international alphabet. Bibliography, APPENDIX TO CHAPTER X. Specimens of adaptations of Latin script to African languages:
Nyanja: Twi: Yoruba; Efik. Oberi kaime script. CONCLUSION
Adaptation of alphabetic scripts to other languages; adaptation of scripts to Turki dialects. Other unknown scripts. External development of letters, Numerals-abbreviations-stenography,
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INDEX