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
