The Aryan origin of the alphabet : disclosing the Sumero-Phœnician parentage of our letters ancient & modern

SUMERIAN ORIGIN OF ALPHABETIC LETTERS 11

In the Sumerian writing, it will be seen from column I of the Tables (pp. 14 and 54) that the simplest vowel and syllabic word-signs under each letter-value in this alphabetic catalogue consist of single vowels, and single consonants, each followed by a vowel that is absolutely necessary to sound the consonant. And it is from these simple consonantal signs, wherein the consonant is followed by a vowel, that the alphabetic consonant letters are found to be derived. This latter feature now explains for the first time the inherent suffixed vowel in every consonant in the Semitic Pheenician, Hebrew, Sanskrit and other allied Indo-Aryan alphabets, in that it was a feature of their parent script, the Sumerian. Thus, for example, the Sanskrit script writes the Aryan clan-title of Barat (or ‘“‘ Brit-on’’) as B’RT, just as the later Pheenicians wrote it PRT,* the short suffixed a being inherent in every consonant.

These vowel and simple syllabic word-signs in Sumerian, now seen to be the parents of our alphabetic letters, read according to their transliteration into ‘roman ”’ letters, as universally accepted by Assyriologists,* as follows: A or A, Ba or Bi, Da or Du, E or E, Fi, Ga, Ha or Kha, I, Ka (or Kat), La, and so on to Z or Za, as seen in the Tables (Plates I and II).

1 WPOB. 53, in series with the ancient Greek spelling of Britain as “Pretan,’ WPOB. 146 f. But later Pheenicians spelt the name of ‘“‘ Britannia ”’ with the long @, as Bavat, WPOB. 9.

2 Except Fi hitherto read Pi, and Ka hitherto read Qa through its Semitic equivalent.