OLDEST
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V01,
Page 731
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
OLDEST
SABA'AN NAM?TEMA SIND.(IRU MOABITE PHOENICIAN BRAHMI IJIAROSTHI /ETHIOPIC (H,myarino (ARABIC) 5008C 8008.0 See also: - STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
( CYPRUS)
most important of these documents is the liturgical inscription of Hadji-abad, where the Arsacid and Sassanian alphabets are found side by side
.
See also: - TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
(The Alphabet, ii. p
.
248 f.) regards the former as probably derived from the " ancient alphabet of Eastern Iran, a sister alphabet of the Aramaean of the satrapies," while the Sassanian belongs to a later stage of Aramaic
.
The alphabets of India all spring from two sources: (a) the Kharosthi, (b) the Brahmi alphabet
.
The history Of the former is lod)a, fairly clear
.
It was always a local alphabet, and never
attained the importance of its rival
.
According to Buhler,' its range lay between 69° and 73° 30' E. and 33° to 35° N.,
Buhler, Indian Studies, iii
.
(2nd ed., 1898), p
.
93
.
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