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

80 ARYAN ORIGIN OF THE ALPHABET

Writing, alphabetic, author of, 66 f. ; date of, 61, 67; evolution of, 14, 6of., and Plates I and II; directions of, 4, 16, I9, 25; effect of materials on, 14, 23 f.; letters derived from Sumerian word-signs, 9, 54, 61f.; order of letters, 54 f.

X, letter, Sumer original of, 52; object pictured by, 52; interchange with H, Kh, Q, and later with C and Ch, 33, 42, 52

X, letter in Greek confused with Xi or S or Ch, 51, 57 ; in Sanskrit, read as Ksh, 50

Xi, letter, 51 £., 57, 58

Y, letter, regarded as a form of U or V, 53; interchange with J, 53; with late J, 53

Yhvh for Jah or Jehovah, borrowed from Sumerian Ja, 53, and see Jah, Jove

Yod, letter-name, 53

Z, letter, Sumer original of 53; object pictured by, 53; interchange with S and Sk, 53, and later with J and Jh, 54

Zax or Zakh or Zagg, title of Lord Dur, Indurn, the Sumerian King Thor, 62

Zeus, derived from Sumerian Zagg or Zax, the Sig title of Thor in Eddas, 62

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