Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind

Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications

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INDEX In cases where there are many references, the principal are marked
in bold type Proper names include Territory, People, Language and Script ABAGA, 291
Adelaide (Countess), 541 Abbeys, 552
Adrano inscriptions. 504 Abbreviations, 306, 354, 520 f., 536, Adriatic Sea, 471, 497 f.; see also Piceni 546, 570; see also Ligatures
Advertisement, 32 ABC, 37
Egean, 72, 768, 223, 249, 267. 419. *Abdo inscription, 206
466, 493; see also Cretan and Minoan Abella cippus, 503
Eolic Chalcidian, 493, 195 Aberdeen (County). 529. 531
Esthetic reasons for external developAbiba'al inscription, 212 f.
ment of letters, 570 Abkhasic, 367
Ettir, 5176 523: see also Runes Abra de Ilog, 433
Afghanistan, 257, 276 f., 302; see also Abraham, 253; see also Patriarchs
Pushtu Abruzzi (Region), 497
Afis inscription, 255 Abstract ideas, 43, 60 f., 112, 128
Africa, z3 F., 26 f., 29, 31, 33 ff., 41, 'Abad (Village), 283
148 ff., 158, 178 ff., 245, 247, 269 f., Abulfaraj Mohammed ibn Ishaq ibn
272, 276, 420, 467, 542, 554, 558, Ya'qub un-Nudim; see Nadim
562 f., 567; see also under names Abu Simbel (Ipsambul), 453, 466
of individual peoples Abu Zeneima (Village), 268
Agapalasa seal, 333
Agave Americana, 125 Abyssini; see Ethiopia Accadian, 49, 53, 90, 164, 253; see also
Agglutinative languages, 41, 53 f., 98, Cuneiform writing and Mesopotamia
169 f1., 322, 442
Aghvarur; see Albania (Caucasus) Accents (Invention of Greek), 458
Agma, 525 Achaan, 449
Agnean, Agni, 347 ff. Achæmenidæ, 186, 254, 257, 304f., 310
Agnone bronze tablet. 5o2 f. Achehnese, Achinese, 428
"Agram" (Zagreb), Mummy of, 490 Achiki Punjabi script, 377
Agriculture in Chinese writing. 112 Acknowlegdments, IV, 14
"Aha ('Ahai), 59 Acrology, acrophony, 61, 172 f., 200
Ahiram; see Akhiram 216, 220
Ahiru script, t69 Aculhuaque; see Toltecs
Ahkui Fulingga; see Nurhachu "Acute-angled alphabet"; see Sidd
Ahom script, 331, 413, 415 1. 419 hamarka
Ahu, 136 Adaptation of scripts to other languages, Aieme, 528 f.
48 ff., 63, 117, 169, 171, 173. 207. Ai-Lao; see Las 260, 266, 269 f. 276 f., 290, 296, "Ain Shemesh; see Beth Shemesh 3oof., 307f., 319, 321, 337, 352, 357. Ainus, 28 f. 387, 409, 412, 414, 418, 420, 437, Airlangga; see Er-langga 443. 446, 471, 483 f., 486, 488, 517 ff., Aitonia script, 419
531, 538, 552 ff., 562 ff., 567 f. Ajanta cave inscriptions, 342 Additional consonantal signs of the Aji Saka, 423
Arabic alphabet, 275,-of the Greek Ajtki, 169 alphabet, 456, 495:- signs of the Ajmer, 371 Cyrillic alphabct, 478f.;-of the Latin Akan language; see Twi alphabet, 536, 538 of the oghams, Akbar (Emperor). 339 525, 529:-of Malay, Persian, Pushtu, Akhar ("script") Atuo'l, Rik, etc., 406 f. Turkish and Urdu, 276 f.:of the Akhiram, 206, 212 ff., 243 Pictish oghams, 531; see also under Akblame (Arraya). Akhlamu; see names of other scripts
Aramaic
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