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

“ APHONIC” MARKS AS SUMERIAN WORD-SIGNS 13

Is’ (wood, BW. 258) and Dan (lord, strong, BW. 279) ; 4th line with variant in 7th line, Wa (pair of ears, BW. 339 and Plate II, p. 54); 5th line with variant in next line, Uru (city, BW. 39) and Ad (father, 162); and so on—the 9th and roth lines having Gavas (a mart, BW. 177), Uz? (sunrise, BW. 337) and Ar (plough, see Sumer-Aryan Dict., Plate 1).

All these sound-values of those “aphonic”’ signs are common elements for the front-names in ancient Sumerian personal names, indicating that these signs doubtless recorded the abbreviated names of the owners of the pottery who, writing in Sumerian script were presumably of Sumerian or Sumero-Phcenician extraction.

And as regards the Egyptian Hieroglyphs themselves, the concrete proofs for the Sumerian origin of the chief cultural hieroglyphs, for the identity of their names or wordvalues and the neo-archaic drawing of their Egyptian forms from Sumerian prototypes, have already been given in my Dictionary, to which several others are now added in the following Plates.