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

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________________ 454 H 4 97 स AA AAAA 987 B BB 1TA Г ИЛ Δ Δ 4 AP A as e CEFE IZ I #日 号 @ 00 Z 25 Y LL LIN my [y] 4 N O 7 4 YTYVμL YVYU I HBH форо H *k 15 O THE ALPHABET ~MM 99 99 4 AP w s tx T 4 HI-20 5 1 KK K レ A MM NN N 王 PETOX 12 COP O YV Ω 166 9 P PR T 0606 X 6 4 ABCD WREN ABNA AA BB C AD FE YV F I 1 K BH h 0 レ MM NN 00 LL 9 PR O P ro 52 T оф x+x YVX 9 A B Γ A E Y NHOIKKEZHOD e alpha beta gamma delta epsilon [upsilon (digamma) IZ zeta eta theta iota 10 K kappa A lambda M 191 XI O omikron Пpi (xan) (koppa) Prha Σ| sigmat tau T[upsilon] phi X khi 4 psi omega Fig. 200 The main branches of the early Greek character compared with the North Semitic alphabet and the classic Greek 1, North Semitic alphabet. 2, Earliest Greek character (ninth-sixth centuries B.C.). 4-5, Eastern branch (4, Ionic; 5, Attic). 7, Western branch. 9, Classic Greek. 10, Names of the letters (in parentheses; names of letters discarded in classic Greek); [for upsilon see p. 455]. 3, 6 and 8, Phonetic values of some letters.

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