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The inscriptions found are mostly not older than 300 or 230 B. C .; but these by no means represent the first specimens of writing in this country , and earlier inscriptions are gradually coming out to light . A vase discovered in 1893 ...
The inscriptions found are mostly not older than 300 or 230 B. C .; but these by no means represent the first specimens of writing in this country , and earlier inscriptions are gradually coming out to light . A vase discovered in 1893 ...
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Grammars and lexicons merely represent the stage of development reached by the language at the time they were written . They are , to continue the simile , like the gauging of a river which shows its section and quantity of water going ...
Grammars and lexicons merely represent the stage of development reached by the language at the time they were written . They are , to continue the simile , like the gauging of a river which shows its section and quantity of water going ...
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It starts with pictures representing the objects meant to be expressed , as , for intance , a wavy line may be drawn to represent waves ... ( 1 ) Taittiriyopanishat , 1-2 , name . tent may represent a tent or a camp VoI , VIII , Pt . 1.
It starts with pictures representing the objects meant to be expressed , as , for intance , a wavy line may be drawn to represent waves ... ( 1 ) Taittiriyopanishat , 1-2 , name . tent may represent a tent or a camp VoI , VIII , Pt . 1.
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name . tent may represent a tent or a camp ; or a lotus , the flower of that But as there are bundreds of things which cannot well be shown in pictures , a sign for one object has to represent the allied objects also .
name . tent may represent a tent or a camp ; or a lotus , the flower of that But as there are bundreds of things which cannot well be shown in pictures , a sign for one object has to represent the allied objects also .
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In doing this it will naturally occur to design the signs representing these sounds also on some scientific ... may be taken sometime in the Sth century B. C. Although the letters of the Hieratic Egyptian represent single sounds so far ...
In doing this it will naturally occur to design the signs representing these sounds also on some scientific ... may be taken sometime in the Sth century B. C. Although the letters of the Hieratic Egyptian represent single sounds so far ...
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| Title | The Journal of the Bihar Research Society, Volume 8 |
| Author | Bihar Research Society |
| Published | 1922 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Dec 2008 |
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