I. Taylor (The Alphabet)

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Degradation

The development and degradation of the alphabetic forms can be traced.

Determinative

Explanatory determinatives . . . were placed after words phonetically expressed, in order to serve as an aid to the reader in determining the meaning.

Detrition

Phonograms which by process long-continued detrition have reached a step of extreme simplicity.

Eponymic

Tablets . . . which bear eponymic dates.

Faucal

Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals.

Ideogram

Ideograms may be defined to be pictures intended to represent either things or thoughts.

L

For 50 the Romans used the Chalcidian chi, , which assumed the less difficult lapidary type, , and was then easily assimilated to L.

Machinery

The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan languages.

minuscule

These minuscule letters are cursive forms of the earlier uncials.

Phonogram

Phonograms are of three kinds: (1) Verbal signs, which stand for entire words; (2) Syllabic signs, which stand for the articulations of which words are composed; (3) Alphabetic signs, or letters, which represent the elementary sounds into which the syllable can be resolved.

Stele

One of these steles, containing the Greek version of the ordinance, has recently been discovered.