Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications
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Trade Marks, Traders, 29, 215, 223, Tuscan hand, Tuscany (Tusci), 544; see 226, 333, 391, 401, 421 also Bella lingua, Etruscan, Florence Transbaikalia, 319 Twi, 562 "Transitional" scripts, 35 f., 40, 58, Twig-runes; see Kvistrůnir 101, 108, 127 f., 141 ff., 216 f., 329 "Twisted" character; see Modi Transjordan, 207, 223, 226, 243, 261, Typewriter, 37 267; see also Ammonite, Edomite Tyrrhenian Sea; see Etruscan and Moabite Tzu (Chinese derivative signs), 115 Tzu shen; see Gods of writing
INDEX
Transylvania, 29, 315; see also Early Hungarian script
Travancore, 379, 382, 385 ff., 393, 396
Tree-oghams, 529
Tremilai; see Lycian
Trento, 500
Trigrams; see Pa kua
Trilingual inscriptions, 271, 284, 312
Tripitaka; see Pitakas
Tritresta (Mythical hero), 423
Trivandrum, 379
Trkhmli, Trmmii; see Lycian Trojan War, Troy, 449, 451 Trondhjem, 511
True respect for other peoples, 572 Tsang (Province), 352 Tsan-tsin-gay inscription, 143 Ts'ao-shu (Script), 108, 171 Tschuktchis; see Chukcha Tshi; see Twi
Ü (Province), 352 U-chân; see Dbu-chan Ucraine; see Ukrainian Udi language, 327
Ugarit cuneiform alphabet, 43, 161, 201 ff., 214 Ugi; see Buginese
Ugro-Finnic; see Finno-Ugrian
Turdetan; see Andalusia Turfan, 312, 347 Turkestan, 286, 292, 302, 310 ff., 314, 316, 346 ff., 354, 357, 568; see also under names of individual peoples Turkey, Turki (Turkic, Turkish), 29, 37, 266, 269, 276 f., 286, 292, 296, 301, 310 ff., 322, 475, 483, 489, 492 f., 554 567 f.; see also Kök Turki Turkmenia, 25
"Turned round" symbols, 113
Uguakima, 149
Uighur, 292, 311 f., 316, 318, 355, 567 Ukrainian, 480 ff.
Uleai Island; see Woleai Ulfilas; see Wulfila
'Umar Vira Jalal-ud-din (Sultan), 391 Umbrian, 502 ff. Umbro-Felsinian script, 504
U-med; see Dbu-med
Unalasca Aleut; see Aleutian Islands Undeciphered inscriptions, 198, 207,
568 ff.
Uncial scripts, 232, 289, 457, 468, 470, 473. 476 ff., 485, 487, 537, 542, 544, 546, 548 f. Ungava dialect, 183 Uni-consonantal phonograms, 60 f., 63, 161, 196 f.
United Provinces (India), 362, 366, 369, 371, 375
United States of America, 19, 25 f., 34. 125, 266, 437; see also America, North America
Universal script, 507, 564 Unknown scripts, 568 ff. Un-mun; see On-mun Uolea Island; see Woleai
Tshoitshi Odser (Lama), 318 Ts'ien-fo-tung; see Tun-huang T'suan or T'swan; see Lo-lo Tuareg, 248; see also Libyan Tuebingen, 485 T'u küe; see Turki Tukulti-Ninurta II, 254 Tule; see Cuna
Tulu script, 379, 384 f.
Tumar script Tune-stone, 508 £.
Tungus, 319
Tun-huang, 312, 348 f. Tunis, 248
Turajas (Tribe), 430 Turanian linguistic group, 322 Turco-Tatar languages, 567 f.; see also Uppland, 509
Tatar and Turkey
Uppsala, 473
Ur (of the Chaldees), 49, 51, 207, 569 Ural-Altaic languages, 442 Ural mountains, 483, 568 Urarteans, 53. 89 Urdu, 276 f., 297, 362 Urfa, Ur-hai; see Edessene Uriya script; see Oriya Urmia (Urumiyah) Lake, 289 "Urrunen", 514; see also Runes Uruk period, 41
U.S.A.: see United States of America
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