Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications

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________________ APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIT 447 syllabary" (Mason), as may be seen from the following list of sounds, for which the symbols have been reproduced in Fig. 195, 7. CONSONANTS + Closed Syllables oa 00 ui ba boa bag (2 symbols). daa doo du goo kui ka lä luh ma symbols) mä modmoo moi mon muo moi ima 700 pu pui raa shä soa tatoo tod tä nga chra chroa shri shrü gkaa cha sthah uh Professor Brown has already noted that this script is unlike any other known writing. The signs are generally geometric and highly conventionalized. According to Brown, however, "some retain a

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