The Alphabet - An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters #221488

Chronological development of the Greek Alphabet; Geographical distribution of Greek Alphabets; Greek test letters The Sibilants, Greek and Semitic; Cypriote and Lycian characters; Hittite and Cypriote characters;Th e Italic Alphabets; Greek and Latin letters Greek Uncials and Minuscules; Latin Uncials and Minuscules; The Coptic Alphabet; The Slavonic Alphabets; Origin of the Glagolitic Alphabet; Cyrillic and Russian ligatures; The Albanian Alphabets; The Runic Alphabets; The Oghams; The Iranian Alphabets; The Parsi or Zend Alphabet; The Arabic Numerals; Armenian Alphabets; Georgian Alphabets; The Primitive Alphabets of India; Origin of the Asoka Alphabet; The Ancient Alphabets of India; Vernacular Alphabets of the Peninsula of India; Vernacular Alphabets of Further India and the Islands; The Maledevi Alphabets