The Aryan Origin of the Alphabet - Paperback

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Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9781578989416

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by Laurence Austine Waddell (Author)

2010 Reprint of 1927 First Edition. Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell (1854 - 1938) was a British explorer, collector in Tibet, and author. He traveled in India throughout the 1890s (including Sikkim and areas on the borders of Nepal and Tibet) and wrote about the Tibetan Buddhist religious practices he observed there. In his later works he tried to synthesize Western and Near Eastern cultures. In this work he proposes an Aryan (i.e., Indo-European) origin of the alphabet. His point of departure is the presumed Semitic origin of the Alphabet, against which he makes an argument for an actual Aryan origin. Illustrated in the text and with two large plates.

Number of Pages: 96

Dimensions: 0.2 x 9.69 x 7.44 IN

Publication Date: July 07, 2010

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