Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind

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

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Tarkondemos seal, 93 Tarquinia inscriptions, 491 Tarshish; see Tartessus Tartars; see Tatar
Tartessus, 249; see also Iberian scripts Tatar dialects, 121, 146 f., 568
Tatooing, 29, 149 Tau (Script), 137 Taungthu, 412 Taurus, 253
Taxila inscription 255, 302, Technical reasons for the external development of letters, 570
INDEX
Tecpanecs, 124
Tekké Turkomans, 568 Telingana, 342, 379; see also Telugu Tell el 'Ajjul, 208 f.
Tell el-'Amarna letters, 51, 214
382 f., 399
Temple of Jerusalem, 210 Temple of Ramm; see Ramm
"Templum" of Piacenza, 490, 492
Temuchin, 316
Tenasserim, 413 Tenevil', 157
Tenochtitlan (Mexico City), 124 Ten Tribes of Israel, 121 "Tent-runes"; see Tjaldrúnir Teos, 451, 456
Tell el-Hesy, 208 f.
Tell el-Kheleifeh, 243 f., 255
Tell Halaf, 255 Tellicherry, 386
Telugu, 337 ff., 365 f., 379, 380 f., Tiflis, 259, 289, 296, 483
Tiglath-pileser I., 254
Te Pito-te-Henua; see Easter Island Termilai; see Lycian
Tertullian, 195
Teutonic oghams (?), 532 Teutons, XII, 473. 507, 512 ff., 517 f.,
552; see also German Gothic Runes Texcoco, Tezcuco (Lake), 124 Thaguroi; see Tokhara Thai, 405, 413 ff.; see also Shan Thai Khe. Mao, 419 Thai Lao, Lu, Ya, 415 Thakari; see Takri
Thames, 511, 517 Thamudene alphabet, 224, 227
Thaton, 409, 411 f.
Thatta script; see Maimons Thattai script, 376
Thebes, 207, 415, 470
Thorn (Letter), 519, 547 Thoth (God), 17 Thracian, 336, 347, 456, 464 Thraco-Phrygian, 347.
Thrah script, 406 f. Three-consonantal phonograms, 60, 63 Thucydides, 501
Thülth, Thuluth script, 274 Thuluth-Djerisi script, 274 Tiberiadic vocalization system, 264 ff. Tibetan, 26, 31, 144, 147, 298, 301, 310, 312, 318, 330, 338, 352 ff., 364, 445 568 Tibeto-Burmese languages, 98, 141 ff., 352, 356 f., 367, 410 Tibeto-Chinese languages, 98, 141 ff.,
"Theocratic" scripts, 214, 259 Theodosia, 265
Theran alphabet, 450 ff., 455 f. Theravada, 413 Thessaly, 455
Thod-kar, Thogarii; see Tokhara Thon-mi-sam-bho-ta (Minister), 353
352, 402, 408, 410, 413 Tibeto-Himalayan languages, 352, 363 T'ien Ming; see Nurhachu
T'ien Shan mountains, 319, 347, 568 Tierra del Fuego, 565 Tifinagh script, 248; see also Libyan
Tigré, 232 f. Tigriña, 232 f.
Tigris, 54; see also Mesopotamia Tihuanacu, 122
Ti-k'iang; see Nam
Tilling the ground, XI
Timur, 282
Tinné (Athabascan(?) tribe), 177, 182 f. Tinnevelly District, 341, 382 Tirhuti scripts, 367, 369 Titicaca Lake, 122, 154 Tivoli inscription, 535 Tjaldrûnir, 515, 523 Tlachiualtepec, 126 Toba (Tribe), 428 Tobbat; see Tibet To-in, 170
Tokhara, Tokharastan, 348
Tokmak, 286
Tollan, 124
Toltecs, 122, 124 ff.
Tomi, 279 Tondi, 382
Tones, 98 f
Tongking, 141, 145 f., 403. 414, 419
Tonigala, 389
Tontemboan (Tribe), 430
Tools (Use of), XI Toquz Oghuz; see Uighur Tordos, 29
Torsbjerg, 508 f. Tours (School of), 547
Tower of S. Manno inscription, 491 Town-building, 81, 120