Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications
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THE ALPHABET
Etruscant Alphabet It is a curious fact that people often forget that the history of an alphabet is altogether distinct from that of the speech which it is employed to represent; nowadays, as in ancient times, the same script can be employed
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Fig. 220—The Magliano leaden tablet
(A, obverse; B. reverse)
for various languages (as in the case of the Latin alphabet which is employed for English, French, German, Italian, Hungarian, Turkish, Finnish, and so forth) and the same speech can be expressed in different scripts (as for instance, the Serbo-Croatian language, which employs the Latin
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Fig. 221 1, Etruscan partial syllabary from Orbetello. 2, The Templum of Piacenzi. 3. Etruscan
inscription on a Vase in Liverpool
