Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind

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

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Messages, 507; see also Symbolic Messapian 471 f., 498, 502 Messapian-Apulian tribes, 472 Messina inscriptions, 503 Metals (Employment of), 120 Methodius; see St. Methodius Mexico, 34, 40, 120-135, 155, 541 Miao, Miao-tse, Miao-tsu, Miao-tsze, Miau-tsze, 145 f., 184 f., 418 Miao Pollard system, 146, 184 f. Micmac script, 155
Micronesia, 24 Middle Ages, 266, 401, 508, 529, 538, 546
Middle Iranian; see Pahlavi Sogdian Middle Kingdom, 286
Middle Persian; see Pahlavi, Sogdian
Midianites, 225
Midnapore District, 370
Miletus, 458
Minæan script, 223 ff. Minahassa script, 154, 156 Minangkabaus; see Menangkabaus Mindanao (Island), 432 f.
Mindoro (Island), 421, 433, 435, 437 Mingrelian dialect, 322
Miniature (Art of), 570 Minnesota (U.S.A.), 183
Minoan, 36, 72 ff., 167, 245, 329, 449: see also Cretan scripts
Minto Stone, 424
Minuscule, 288, 321 ff., 457 f., 460, 538, 540, ff., 545 ff., 549, 552; see also under names of individual scripts "Mirror writing," 565
Mirrors (Etruscan), 491 Miskhaf Resh, Miskhefa Resh, 296 Misra script, 390. Missing-link theory on the origin of the alphabet, 201 f., 208 ff. Missionaries, 153, 155, 177, 179, 181, 183 ff., 286, 289, 295 f., 375, 393. 409, 412, 418, 442, 485, 546, 552, 565, Mississipi, 183 Mitannian, 53, 90, 253 Mithila; see Maithili Mithridates, I, 304, 327 Mixe Codices, 126 Mixtec Codices, 123, 126 Mkhedruli script 323 ff. Mnemonic devices, Mnemotechnic,
26 ff., 127, 137, 139 Moabite script, 207, 212, 235 ff., 243 f. Mocara Jianten inscription, 422 Modi script, 360, 372 Modjopahit empire; see Majapahit Masogothic; see Gothic Mogul dynasty, 378 Mohammed, 271
Mohammedans; see Moslems Mohenjo-Daro; see Indus Valley Momolu Duwalu Bukele, 179 Mom-pa; see Lepcha
Mon (Language), 405, 408 ff., 414, 418 Mon-Burmese culture, 411
Mon-Khmer languages, 403, 405, 408,
413
Monasteries (Christian), 552 f. Monastir (Congress at), 488 Monghyr, 367
Mongolian, 27, 121, 147, 157, 217, 282, 286, 301, 310, 312, 314, 316 ff., 324, 355 f., 402, 413, 422, 444, 367 f. Monoconsonantic; see Uni-consonantal Monogenetism of the alphabet, XI, 217 Monograms, 407
Monophysites, 283, 285, 287, 467 Monopoly of writing, 37, 65, 134, 137,
215
Monosyllabism, 98, 152, 169, 357, 402,
410, 442 Montecassino, 544
Montecuzoma or Montezuma, 124 Montenegro, 485 Monumental Gupta, 345 f. Monumental scripts, 190 f., 247, 262, 272, 277 f., 285, 302, 307, 314, 345, 352, 354, 358. 363, 383 f., 392, 407, 411, 458, 537 ff., 552 Moose Cree; see Cree Moqui (Tribe), 28 F. Moravia, 485
Mordva (Mordvinians, Mordvins), 483 Moresby Archipelago, 29 Morice's Cherokee script, 177 f. Moritsune script, 169
Morocco, 263 "Moros" 433
Mosaic legislation, 17, 51
Moslems, 180, 269, 272, 280, 286, 292, 296, 310, 316, 361 f., 377. 379, 402, 405, 422, 426, 428, 433
Mo-so script, 141 ff., 415
Mosul, 286, 289
Movable types (Invention of), 444 f.. Mrashrash, 343
Mul script, 407
Multani script, 330, 376 Multi-consonantal signs, 63 Munda (Language), 405 Mun-pa; see Lepcha Musaios, 451
Muskhogean, Muskhokee, 183 Muslims; see Islam and Moslems Mutual understanding, 559, 572 Mu yin script, 107
Myazedi inscriptions, 409 f. Mycena, 167, 449