Chinese and Sumerian

PROGRESSIVE TRANSFORMATION OF CHARACTERS

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originally distinct have been observed in the Sumerio-Babylonian script in its transition from the linear to the cuneiform mode of writing. (See Dangin on the linear forms corresponding to >, ¢, &c. D.11; 257.) Characters originally, as it would seem, diverse, yet more or less resembling each other, were finally merged

in a common representative.