World Alphabets: Their Origin and Development |
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acrophony Aleph alphabets Alpu ancient Arabic Aramaic ayin became bottom Brahmi century B. C. China consonants cursive form Cyrillic Damuscus deciphered Demotic developed Devnagari direction was right dynasty Easter Island Egyptian Egyptian language Etruscan excavated fell in disuse following columns given Greek Gupta script HEBREW hence the name HIERATIC Hieroglyphic HITTITIC ideograms India inscription Inshushinak James Prinsep King language Latin left to right Mayan meaning MEROITIC modern Mohenjo Daro Mongolian NSIBIDI OGHAM P.V. SIGN Persian Phoenician letters phonetic values Pictograms Pictographic Qoph right to left Romans Runes scholars shih SIGNS PV sound specimen speech and script syllabary system of writing tribe unearthed upto vowels word writing was invented written प्र