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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 731 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OLDEST SABA'AN NAM?TEMA See also:

SIND.(IRU MOABITE PHOENICIAN BRAHMI IJIAROSTHI /ETHIOPIC (H,myarino (ARABIC) 5008C 8008.0 See also:Stone (See also:CYPRUS) most important of these documents is the liturgical inscription of Hadji-abad, where the Arsacid and See also:Sassanian alphabets are found See also:side by side. See also:Taylor (The See also:Alphabet, ii. p. 248 f.) regards the former as probably derived from the " See also:ancient alphabet of Eastern See also:Iran, a See also:sister alphabet of the Aramaean of the satrapies," while the Sassanian belongs to a later See also:stage of Aramaic. The alphabets of See also:India all See also:spring from two See also:sources: (a) the Kharosthi, (b) the Brahmi alphabet. The See also:history Of the former is See also:lod)a, fairly clear. It was always a See also:local alphabet, and never attained the importance of its See also:rival. According to Buhler,' its range See also:lay between 69° and 73° 30' E. and 33° to 35° N., Buhler, See also:Indian Studies, iii. (2nd ed., 1898), p. 93.

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