Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind

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

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INDEX Personal names, 128; see also Abstract Pollard (Samuel) syllabic systems, 184f. ideas
Polygenetism of writing XI f., 566 Peru, 26, 90, 153 f., 569 f.
Polynesia, 24, 26, 35, 136, 216; see Perugia cippus, 490 f.
also Malayo-Polynesian Petra, 267
Polyphones, 43, 60, 60, 554 Petrarch, 552
Polysyllabic, 442 Petroglyphs, 22 ff.
Polysynthetic languages, 124 Petrossa de jos, 511
Polytonic languages, 98 f., 401-420; see "Phags-pa (Lama), 318; see also 'Pags-pa also Monosyllabism Phaistos disc, 78 f.
Pompeii, 514. 541 ff. Phalaka, 332
Pondicherry (South India), 341 Philippine Islands, 331, 420 ff., 429, Ponna: se Manipuri 432 ff.
Pontus, 327 Philistines, 197, 235
Poona District, 342 Philo of Byblos, 205
Popes, 287, 485, 552 Philology, 19, 203
Portuguese, 23, 372, 393, 420, 552 f., 562 Phocis, Phocian, 455 f., 495
Postal service (Peculiar), 438 Phænician, 33, 37, 87, 162 ff., 195 ff., Potoru, 180
204 f., 212 ff., 220 f., 226, 235 f., 240, Preneste fibula, 533 ff.
245 ff., 260, 335 f., 451 f., 486, 514 Praisos, 78 Phoenician-Greek alphabet, 500
Prakrit, 337, 339, 343 f., 346, 350, 379. Phoinikéia grammata, 451
385 Phonetics, 36 f., 43, 60, 95, 110f., 114 f., Prasasti from Lakhamandal, 358
128, 139, 143, 170 f., 176, 181, 186, Pratishthana; see Patitthana 191, 220, 247, 554; see also Pronuncia- Pre-alphabetic scripts, 249 tion and Spelling
Pre-Caroline book-hands, 544 Phonograms (sound-pictures), 43, 60 Pre-Celtic, 531 Phonography, Phonology, 444. 457, Precious stones (Script of the), ro8
469, 487. 495, 498, 505, 512, 516 ff., Pre-Columbian, Pre-Conquest cultures; 525, 328, 531, 535
see under names of individual peoples Phrygian, 165, 347, 463 f., 465 f., 503 Pre-Hellenic, 449, 462, 493 Pi (the Chinese writing-brush), 106 Prehistoric geometric signs, 20, 22 ff., Piacenza; see Templum of Piacenza 29. 167, 198, 216, 249, 251 f. Picenian, 471, 496, 497 f., 500, 502 Prehistoric Japanese scripts, 169 Picenti, 497
"Prehistoric runic alphabet," 514 Pictographic Advertisement, 32 Pre-Islamic Arabia; see Southern) Pictography, Picture writing, 31 ff., Arabia
41 f., 73 ff., 127, 133, 137, 149 ff., Pre-Roman, 500 153 f., 334
Pre-Sabellic; see Piceni Picts, Pictish oghams, 529 ff.
Pre-Semitic aborigines of Palestine, 335 Picturing, 32
Pretania, Pretanikai nésoi, Pretanike Pidgin Malay: see "Basic" Malay
Désos, Pretanoi, Prettania; see Britain "Pintados", 432
Printing, 37, 538, 552 Pinyas (Tribe), 28
Prome, 408 ff. "Piombo" of Magliano, 490, 492 Prometheus, 450 Piprava, 332
Pronunciation, to, 170 f., 218, 283 f., Pireus, 245, 511
288, 336, 350, 354. 360 f., 371, 442, Pishbek, 286
444. 458, 496 f. 555. 558; see also Pitakas, 388, 409
Phonetics and Spelling Pitalkhora care inscriptions, 342
Property marks, 29, 43, 249 Piyadasi; see Asoka
Prophets, 215339 Place names, 128; see also Abstract
Protestants, 485, 550 ideas
Proto-Arabic inscriptions, 207, 569 Plains Cree; see Cree
Proto-Armenian; see Urartu Plethoric systems, 164
Proto-Celtic; see Pictish oghams Polish, 37, 266, 483, 553 ff., 559
Proto-Hattic, Proto-Hittite; see Hittites Polish-German form of Hebrew script, Proto-Indians see Indus Valley 263
Protolinear; see Geometric signs Politics, 559
Proto - North Semitic alphabet, 229