The Aryan Origin of the Alphabet - Disclosing the Sumero-Phoenician Parentage of Our Letters Ancient and Modern - Couverture souple

Waddell, L. A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1447402480 ISBN 13 : 9781447402480

Editeur : Read Books, 2011

Synopsis

This book contain is a comprehensive guide to the origins of the alphabet, exploring its existence in ancient Greece, Egypt, and Samaria. Laurence Austine Waddell (1899 - 1938) was a British Explorer, professor of Tibetan, and Indian army surgeon. Other notable works by this author include: "Among the Himalayas", "The Birds of Sikkim" (1893), and "Some Ancient Indians Charms from the Tibetan" (1895). Contents include: "Ancestry of the Alphabets Re The Phoenicians", "Alphabet Letters in Pre-Dynastic and Early-Dynastic Egypt and Theories Thereon", "How the Sumerian Origin of the Alphabet was Discovered", "The So-Called 'Aphonic Owner's Mark", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Building upon his earlier works in which he proved a racial link between the Indo-Europeans in Europe and ancient Sumeria, in this work the author shows that the modern alphabet used in Europe (and thus most of the world) originated with a Proto-Indo-Hittite script which developed into Sumerian. This was then in turn transmitted to surrounding civilizations and ultimately became the written language of Western civilization.

“The origin of our Alphabet and Alphabetic Writing—one of the greatest and most useful of human inventions—has long been the subject of countless conjectures, but has hitherto remained wholly unsolved. The new evidence now discloses by concrete proofs that unknown origin, the meaning of the letters or signs, the objects that they represent with their original names and meanings, and their racial authorship, which is found to be not Semite, as hitherto supposed, but Aryan.

“The inventor of the alphabet is traced to the leading mercantile and seafaring branch of the ruling Aryans or Sumerians, namely, the Hitto-Phoeniciansand his personality appears to found in King Cadmus, the Phoenician sea-emperor of about 1200 BC, after whom the Greeks named their early alphabetic letters.

“The effect, therefore, of these constructive discoveries is destructive of the current established theories of modern historians and philologists on the racial origin of the Higher Civilization and of civilized writing, both hieroglyphic and alphabetic. It thus necessitates a new re-orientation of the facts of Ancient History and of the History of our Modern Civilization.”—From the conclusion.

Contents:

I: Ancestry of the Alphabets re the Phœnicians

II: Alphabetic Letters in Pre-Dynastic and Early-Dynastic Egypt and Theories Thereon

III: How the Sumerian Origin of the Alphabet Was Discovered

IV: The Alphabetic Vowel and Consonantal Signs in Sumerian Writing

V: The So-Called “Aphonic Owner’s Mark” Signs Of Pre-Dynastic and Early-Dynastic Egypt Are Sumerian Linear Pictograms

VI: Comparative Alphabetic Tables Showing Sumerian Origin & Evolution of the Alphabetic Letters

VII: Individual Letters and Their Evolution from Sumerian Parents

VIII: Names of the Letters and Objects Pictured

IX: Order of the Alphabet or “Abc” and Numeral Value of Letters

X: Authorship of the Alphabetic System and Date

XI: Some Historical Effects of the Discoveries

Completely reset. Contains all original plates and figures.

Biographie de l'auteur

Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell, (1854–1938) was a British explorer, Professor of Tibetan, Professor of Chemistry and Pathology, British army surgeon, collector in Tibet, philologist, amateur archeologist, Doctor of Laws, and author. Waddell was also a philologist and linguist, having studied Sumerian and Sanskrit he made various translations of seals and other inscriptions.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Read Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1447402480
• ISBN 13: 9781447402480
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 90
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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