Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind

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

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Stungnar rúnir; see Dotted runes Stupa, 341, 410 Stylus, 48, and passim Styria, 498
Subartu, 253
Subba; see Mandians Sudanese languages, 269, 562 f. Suddhammapura; see Thaton
Sudra, 329 Suez, 268
INDEX
Suggestive compounds (Chinese), 112 Sughda, Sughuda; see Sogdian Sujin stele, 255
Suketi, 375 Sukhodaya, Sulima River, 178 Sultan Mahmud; see Mahmud Sülüs; see Thuluth Sumatra, 30, 421 f, 427 ff.,: see also
Batak, Lampong and Redjang Sumerians, 41 ff., 59, 72, 102 f., 197. 204, 322; see also Cuneiform writing Sundanese, 421, 426 Sung script, 108 Sunga script, 342 f. Superior (Lake), 183 Superstition; see Magic Sura (River), 483 Surabaya, 424
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Byblos, Hittites, Jacobites, Melkites and Nestorians Syriac Christians, 279 ff. Syriac-Malayalam; see Syro-Malabarese "Syriani"; see St. Thomas Christians Syro-Malabarese alphabet, 393 ff. Syryans, 482
Surat, 399
Suri, 253 Susa, 53: see also Elamite Sutherland (County), 529 Suttantas, 329, 332 Svanian dialect, 322 Swahili, 269, 276, 297 Swampy Cree; see Cree Swedish, 473, 508-509, 513, 518, 520 ff.; see also Nordic, Runes, Scandinavia Swedish-Norwegian runes, 520 ff. Switzerland, 541
TABASCO, 120
Sukhotai, 413, 416, 418 Tablas (Island), 433 Tabriz, 289
Syakat script, 274 Syllabaries, XII, 36 f., 43. 53, 95 f., 99, 128, 147, 152 f., 158 ff., 186, 217, 25, 315, 329, 336, 442 ff., 466, 500, 566
Symbolic messages, symbolism, 29, 514; see also Aroko, Ideographic, Pictography, and under names of individual scripts Sympathetic Magic, 21 ff., 155 Synod of Diamper; see Diamper Synonym-compounds, 100 Syöl Chong, 444 f. Syracuse, 472
Syria, XII, 19, 24, 36, 88, 93, 165, 167, 203, 212, 214 ff., 221, 223, 226, 230 f., 235, 253 f., 260, 276 ff., 296, 304, 317, 320, 327, 387, 393 f.; see also
Systematisation of Chinese characters 106, 108 f Sze-chwan, 141, 143 Szeklers, 315
Tachigraphy; see Stenography Ta chuan (ta chwan), 103, 105 f., 110 Tacitus, 514
Tadmor; see Palmyra Tadpole script, 108
Tagala, Tagalog, 330, 432, 434 ff., 440 f. Tagbanua, 421, 433, 435, 437 ff. Tahlequah, 177
Taima inscription, 255, 259 Tairong; see Khamti Tairong Tä-jong (King), 444
Takhelgnamba manuscript, 367 Takka tribe, 373
Takri scripts, 372 ff.
Talaings, 408; see also Mon Ta-li, 274
Ta Liang-shan, 141, 143 Tali-fu, 413
Ta'liq script, 274
Tally-sticks; see Notched sticks Talmud, 264 Tamachek, 248 Tamar; see Palmyra Tamar (Queen), 324 "Tamarind-pod" script; see Fak Kham Tamaulipas, 123 Tambapanni; see Ceylon Tamga seals, 20
Tamil, 337 f., 344, 365, 378 ff., 385 ff., 399 Taming animals, XI Tamna, 225
Tana script; see Gabuli Tana Tanganyika Territory, 26 f,, 562 Tangut; see Si-Hia
Tangutan; see Tibetan T'ang yun, 110 Tanjore, 372, 384 ff. Tapanuli (Residency), 428 Taprobane; see Ceylon Tapuk script, 407 Tarentum, 472 Tarim (River), 347 f.