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CHAPTER III. Pre-alphabetic Scripts: Part I . 46
¶ 1. Introduction. ¶ 2. Pre-eminence of the Near East. ¶ 3.
Cretan scripts--Phaestus Disk--Cyprian syllabary. ¶ 4. Cuneiform's
origin--Development of the shape of the signs--First appearance of
phonograms--Determinatives--Phonetic complements--Persian cu-
neiform--Ugarit cuneiform. ¶ 5. Hittite cuneiform--Complexity
of Hittite system--Hittite hieroglyphics.
CHAPTER IV. Pre-alphabetic Scripts: Part II 70
¶ 1. Egyptian hieroglyphics--Phonograms and single-consonant
signs--Determinatives--Coptic alphabet. ¶ 2. Indus Valley script--
Easter Island writing--Nsibidi ideograms. ¶ 3. Maya and Aztec
scripts. ¶ 4. Early pictography in China--Chinese phonograms and
the language--Phonetic compounds. ¶ 5. Japanese ideograms and
syllabaries.
CHAPTER V. The Semitic Alphabet and Its
Origin 		94
¶ 1. Single origin of all alphabets--Semitic alphabet--Acrophonic
and pictographic theories of origin--Historic evolution of letter forms
--Order of letters in the alphabet. ¶ 2. Other scripts as source of
Semitic alphabet--Sinaitic script--Byblos pseudo-hieroglyphic--Ca-
naanite inscriptions--General considerations--Ahiram forms of the
alphabet--Objections to Sinaitic theory--A conventional origin. ¶ 3.
Examples of the invention of a script--Cherokee and Somali scripts--
Idea diffusion and ordinary borrowing--Semitic alphabet an original
creation.
CHAPTER VI. The Extension of the Alphabet 126
¶ 1. Semitic origin of Greek alphabet--Creation of vowels--East-
ern and Western types. ¶ 2. Etruscan alphabet--Its Italic descend-

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Triumph of the Alphabet: A History of Writing. Contributors: A. C. Moorhouse - author. Publisher: Henry Schuman. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1953. Page Number: viii.
    
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