Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications
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NON-SEMITIC OFFSHOOTS OF ARAMAIC BRANCH
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The epoch-making discoveries of British-Indian, German, Russian, Japanese, French and other expeditions, have yielded extremely important results, published by the discoverers themselves:
A. Stein, Ancient Khotan, London, 1907; Serindia, 3 vols., London, 1921; Innermost Asia, 4 vols., Oxford, 1928.
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Fig. 144 The Sogdian
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compared with the Aramaic script
Aramaic Palmyrene alphabet (1) with its phonetic values (2). Sogdian alphabet (3 initial signs; 4, medial signs; 5, final signs) with its phonetic values (6). Uighur alphabet (7, initial signs; 8, medial signs; 9, final signs of the script employed in Eastern Turkestan: 10, initial signs, and, 11, final signs of the script of Qutadghu bilig, "Knowledge which makes happy," an Uighur work composed in A.D. 1069 70 and preserved in an Uighur manuscript written in 1440 at Herat; 12, the phonetic values of the letters)
