Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind

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

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INDEX Siddhamatrka script, 357 f., 363 South-eastern Africa, - Asia; see Sidon, 245
Africa, Asia Sidra rabba; see Ginza
Southern) Africa, America, - Asia; Siena, 485
see Africa, America, Asia Sierra Leone, 178
Southern) Arabia, 191, 221, 223 ff., Sigurd the Dragon-Slayer, 507
249, 269, 335 Sihala, Sihala-dipa; see Ceylon
Southern) Etruscan,-Europe, - IreSi-Hia, 146 ff.
land, - Italy. - Russia, Siberia, Sikem; see Shechem
- Turkestan, -Wales; see Etruscan, Sikhs, 376, 377-378: see also Gurmukhi Europe, Ireland, etc. Si-kiang, 141
South(ern) India, 286, 328, 337, 340 ff., Sikkim, 352, 356
344 f., 360, 365 f., 371 f., 378 ff., Sikwaya; see Sequoya
388, 391, 399 f., 402 f., 405, 407 ff., Silchester (Hants), 525
422 f., 427; see also Dravidian Siloam, 239
South Semitic alphabets, 190, 202, Simla, 373, 375
223 ff., 275, 335.456; see also Semites, Simonides of Chios, 451
South Arabia and North Arabia Sinaitic, XII, 160, 198 ff., 208, 211,
South Shields, 279 214 f., 223, 229 f., 243, 260, 267 ff., South-west(em) China, India,
Pahlavi; see China, India, Pahlavi Sindhi, 330, 376 f.
Soviet Russia; see Russia and U.S.S.R. Sinhala dvipa, Sinhala script, Sinhalese,
Spain, Spanish, 23, 33, 37, 120 f., 132, 331, 337, 387 ff., 390 ff., 394, 401,
245, 249, 251 f., 263, 266, 269, 272, 411; see also Ceylon
276, 291, 432 ff., 436 f., 541, 544, 552, Sin-kiang, 310
554 f., 558, 565, 569; see also Iberian Sinology: see China
Spanish adventures, 120
Spanish conquests, 119 f., 124 f., 433 Sino-Siamese languages, 402, 412 f.,
Spanish-Hebrew script, 264 416; see also China, Shan and Siamese Sioux; see Dakota
Spatula, 158 ff., 205 Siquaia; see Sequoya
Speculation, 14 Sirhind, 362
Speed in writing, 570 Sirmauri, 375
Speech, XI, 19 f., 98, 217 Sivaji, 372
Spelling 371, 497, 519 f., 555, 558;
see also Phonetics and Pronunciation Sivaskandavarman (King), 344
Spelling reform, 558 f. Skallagrim, 307
Spurious inscriptions, 249, 297 f., 569 f. Skythians, 350
Spurius Carvilius, 538 Slanting Gupta; see Gupta scripts "Square" Hebrew alphabet; see Hebrew Slaves (Tribe); see Tinné
"Square" scripts; see Monumental Slavic runes, 318
Srah script; see Thrah Slavonie, 269, 276, 347, 475 ff., 518, Sri Vijaya kingdom, 418, 422, 424, 427 f.
552f.; See also Cyrillic, and Glagolitic, Srong-btsan-Sgam-po (King), 353 and under names of individual peoples Staffordshire, 508 scripts
Stages of writing. 21 ff. Slovaks, 483
Standard international alphabet, 558 f. Slovene, Slovenskij jezyku, 475, 483 Standardizer of writing, 103, 107 Small seal characters; see Hsiao chuan Stars (Script of the), roS Soba, 190
Stenography, 25. 570 Sodasa, 343, 345
Stimulus-diffusion; see Idea-diffusion Sogdian, 260, 286, 304. 310 ff., 315 f., Stone Age, 252; see also Neolithic and 348, 350
Palæolithic Sohgaura copper plate, 332
Stone Drums (Chinese), 104 f. Solomon, 223, 236, 333
Stone of Israel, 62 Solomon Islands, 26
Stone of Mesha', 112, 243 Solomonic dynasty; see Ethiopia
Strabo, 464, 466 Somali alphaber, 300, 568
Stressed or long vowels, 554 Sondrio inscriptions, 499 ff.
Stuart's Lake, 177 Sonthals (Tribe), 26
Study of history of writing, 17 ff., rio, Sound-pictures; see Phonograms
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