Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind

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

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INDEX Akkadian; see Accadiun
Amalfi hand, 544 Akkharika (lettering"), 329
Amaravati inscriptions.-stupa, 344 f. Aksar ("script") Chrieng.-Mul, 407 Amarna Tablets, 53, 89. 253; See also Aksara Bud'da, 425 f.
Tell el-Amarna Akuapem,-Twi, see Twi
Amatl paper, 123 Akyem-Twi, see Twi
Ambala, 375 Alani, 483
Amenophis IV, 164 Alarodian; see Caucasian
America, 27 ff., 33, 35 f., 40, 121 f., 136, Alaska, 33, 157, 183
154 f., 158, 175 ff., 181 ff., 279, 291, Albania (Caucasus), 325 ff.
541, 365: see also under names Albanian scripts, 327. 486, 488 f.
of individual countries A1-Barada'i; see Jacob Baradieus American Indians, 30, 33, 40, 153, 155, Albay, 433
175 ff., 181 Alburnus Major (Dacia), 541 f.
Amgapalassa; see Agapalasa Alcoy inscription, 249, 251
Amharic script, 223, 232 f. Alcuin of York, 547
Amherst district, 409, 416 Aleppo, 93, 254, 271, 296
Amina; see Twi Aleutian Islands, 183
Ammonite script, 233 f., 243 f. Alexander the Great, 186, 267, 339 Amoy dialect, 99 Alexandrian, 393, 470
Amur (River), 318 Alfred the Great, 339, 519, 547
Anadyr River, 137 Alfuros; see Minahassa
Anahuac; see Mexico Al-Fustat, 265; see also Cairo
Anaichi script, 169 Algeria, 247
Analogy in Chinese writing, 113 Algonkian tribes, 155, 183
Anatolia; see Asia Min. Hittite, Turkey Al-Hira, 271
Anawata; đe Aniruddha 'Ali Yusuf, 300
Ancyranum (Monumentum), 535 Alisot Pasha, 488
Andalusian script, 249 ff. Aljamiah script, 269, 276
Andes, 122 Al-Kufah; see Kufa
Andhra script, 342, 344 f. Allahabad, 362
Angad (Sikh Guru), 377 Alluru, 337
Angkor (Thom), 405, 413 Alphabet follows religion, 181, 183, 269, Anglian runes, Anglo-Saxon scripts,
285 ff., 301, 377 F.. 392 f., 396,401 f., 507, 512, 315, 517, 518 f., 522, 537,
411, 414, 483, 485, 523. 552 f., 570 544, 546 f., 548 f., 551 f. 554, 558; "Alphabet follows the flag," "Alphabet see also English alphabet follows the trade," 553
Anglo-Frisian, 518 Alphabetic branches, 220 1., 223, Anglo-Irish hands, 544, 546 f., 549
235 f., 248, 255, 260, 271 f., 277, 301, Annalus the Nabativan, 267 307, 319 f., 341, 343 f., 345 f., Annamn, 117 f., 402 ff. 363 f., 448. 455. 462, 480 f., 489, Antido, 559 493, 495 ff. 503, 507, 512
Antigonus, 267 Alphabetic inscriptions, 220, 513, 515, Antioch of Syria, 280, 283, 288
317, 519; see also Sample-alphabets "Antiqua" script, 552 Alphabetic system of writing. XI f., Antisigma, 538
13 f., 37, 61, 63, 69, 100, 132, 152, Antrim (County), 525 160 f., 176, 186 ff., 195 fl., 230, Anuruddha, 411 251, 291, 329, 335 ff., 442, 445, 461, An-yang, 105 514. 566, 572; see also under names As inscription, 512
of individual alphabetic scripts Apollo, 451 Alphabetology, 37
Apostles, 255 Alphabetum, 195
Appius Claudius Censor, 536 Alpine alphabets, 500 f.
Apulia, 471 Altai Kirghiz; see Kazakh Turkish
Apurawanos (Tribe), 433 Altai mountains, 318, 568
'Aqabah (Gulf of), 224, 243, 271 Altaic linguistic family, 318 f.
Arabic, 19, 29, 49, 152, 181, 195 ff., 204, Al-'Ula, 225, 227; see also Dedan
217, 223, 226 F., 230 ff., 253 1., 260, Alyans, see Albania (Caucasus)
266, 269-277, 282 ff., 289 f., 293 ff., Alvão inscription, 23
386 ff., 420 f., 567 ff.