Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications
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THE ALPHABET does not seem a survival of former times, and it was apparently made up for the purpose by the tombas or medicine-men. De Lacouperie, however, rightly pointed out the possibility that "this sacred writing embodies survivals of the pictorial stage of notation independent of synchronical dates and progresses elsewhere." Nowadays, the southern Mo-so employ the Chinese character, while the Mo-so of the north use the Tibetan alphabet. The illustrated Mo-so manuscripts, of which the
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