Footnote 1: The addition of the last verse to the alphabetic psalms, xxv.
The acknowledged vagueness of the chapter and the demonstrably alphabetic nature of at least part of it, certainly render its authenticity very doubtful.
The elegies are all alphabetic, and like mostalphabetic poems (cf.
An alphabetic poem in praise of the good housewife.
Jeremiah by the inconsolable sorrow of Jerusalem would have expressed his grief in alphabetic elegies: men do not write acrostics when their hearts are breaking.
The Bible makes frequent allusion to the cultivation of alphabetic cyphers--thus in Ex.
Illustration] It is well known, that long prior to the arrival of Cadmus the Greeks were in possession of alphabetic writing.
It is true that we have been denied the possession of alphabetic characters before the time of St. Patrick: but by whom?
Then it is possible to frame some kind of catalogue for reference arranged like a dictionary with its sub-alphabetic order, in an almost infinite series.
Some of the main conditions on which the problem of alphabetic arrangement of the index depends may now be set forth, before we proceed to consider how those conventional syllables are to be formed which indicate patterns.
There seems to be no logical aim in this arrangement of the alphabetic characters and the series is incomplete.
The history of some of the alphabetic signs is still very obscure, but a sufficient number of them have been explained to make it nearly certain that the values of all were obtained on the same principles.
This discovery, and the recognition of the name Alexander, gave fourteen alphabetic signs, including homophones, with ascertained values.
For some alphabetic signs more than one likely origin might be found, while for others, again, no clear evidence of origin is yet forthcoming.
It is obvious that the alphabetic signs played a very important part in the formation of the groups, and many words could only be written in alphabetic signs.
Spelling of words purely in phonetic or even alphabetic characters is not uncommon, the determinative being generally added.
While the mythical story about Cadmus, taking his sixteen letters from Phœnicia into Greece, must be rejected, the European world owes to this race of traders the alphabetic symbols now in use.
The discovery of the correct alphabetic values of Egyptian signs was most useful for reading names, but for translating the Egyptian language a competent knowledge of Coptic was required.
In 1822 the list of alphabetic Egyptian characters that had been drawn up by Young was corrected and greatly enlarged by J.
On the other hand the application of non-alphabetic characters to other than the original language to which these were adapted is by no means so simple and manageable in results.
With the adoption of the Proto-Medic cuneiform by the Medes and Persians, many of the syllabic signs, instead of representing syllables came on the acrologic principle to be used as alphabetic characters.
In confirmation of this we find that the first appearance of alphabetic writing—that is where letters only are used for the formation of words—was consonant writing.
These alphabetic values were based upon the spelling of the name and titles in the ancient Zend.
Notwithstanding the fact thatalphabetic signs were the key to each of these systems of writing, we are not to find that either the hieroglyphic or cuneiform systems were founded on the alphabet.
In no sense were they letters or alphabetic characters, but pictures of objects which were used to express sound.
If, then, the signs for P, t and l in Ptolemaios corresponded with the signs for p, t and l in Cleopatra, the identity of these as alphabetic signs would be confirmed.
It indicates that what our alphabetic system is to modern civilizations the Babylonian cuneiform was to the civilizations of western Asia in the century preceding the Exodus.
There was no development with them of alphabetic characters.
Among the many advantages obtained from a purely syllabic, or purely alphabetic system of writing is the easy adjustment of these signs to various forms of speech.
The type of the alphabetic character employed in the various localities differs.
The most ancient copies of the Zend-Avesta are only to be found in Pehlivi characters, a Persian alphabetic system of the Sassanian period, dating from the 3d century A.
Turning then to the older Persian language, of the time of Darius, for the spelling of the name of this king, he gavealphabetic values to certain of these signs which he supposed might spell the name of Darius.
The first column, addressed to the Persian people of his realm, was written in the Persian cuneiform, with thirty-six alphabetic signs and but four ideograms.
But if the inference be correct, this of itself would serve to indicate that the Central American hieroglyphics are not used as phonetic, or pure alphabetic signs; and this idea receives confirmation from the rare recurrence of the same group.
There is no evidence that the Aztecs ever reached the highest or alphabetic stage of hieroglyphics, and so far as is known they only used the syllabic method in writing names, and foreign words after the coming of the Spaniards.
Generally the Dubium, in alphabetic works of the kind referred to, ranks under some alphabetic word, one or more, as it may happen; but in Em.
Whether these signs were ideographic or syllabic or alphabetic in the early stages we do not know; certainly they were alphabetic in the later stage.
Alphabetic writing, although more simple and stabilized, is really more difficult than ideographic writing.
So did the lever, and probably alphabetic writing, and the number system.
Nevertheless, their alphabetic literacy is as relevant to writing as much as a good description of the various kinds of wheels is relevant to the making and the use of automobiles.
Henceforth, it subjects the readers of the alphabetic text to the task of filling the enormous gap separating the graphic sign from its referent with their own experience.
Alphabetic writing annihilates this frame of experience based on resemblance.
In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters.
So, after the fourteenth century before the common era, the invention of alphabetic writing had barred the way for the extension of Babylonian writing into the European world.
In this he indicates a certain number ofalphabetic characters, but the key did not work, and Dr.
In this record three alphabetic characters are employed to spell that monarch's name.
La Revolution is but so many Alphabetic Letters; a thing nowhere to be laid hands on, to be clapt under lock and key: where is it?
Into the body of the poor Tatars execrative Roman History intercalated an alphabetic letter; and so they continue Ta-r-tars, of fell Tartarean nature, to this day.
The alphabeticartifice is not uncommon with Hebrew poets, the most elaborate example being Ps.
Palamedes and Philoctetes, Palamedes being the inventor of alphabetic writing.
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