A
MANUAL OF REFERENCE
TO THE
ALPHABETS OF ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGES
BASED ON THE GERMAN COMPILATION
OF
F. BALLHORN
LONDON
TRÜBNER AND CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW
1861.
THE GRAMMATOGRAPHY is offered to the Public as a compendious introduction to the reading of the most important ancient and modern languages. Simple in its design, it will be consulted with advantage by the Philological Student, the Amateur Linguist, the Bookseller, the Corrector of the Press, and the diligent Compositor.
Although substantially based on "Ballhorn's Alphabete," a German compilation, which, in the space of a few years, passed through nine editions, the present manual has in several articles been very considerably improved and enlarged. Of the new observations which have been inserted, some may prove useful even when this work shall be consulted by the side of the respective Grammars, With regard to the Asiatic Alphabets, it may be stated, that the continued efforts to obtain trustworthy specimens have, in some instances, led to highly satisfactory results. In preparing the type of the Chinese characters, the lateral "Tones" have been adjoined to the 214 symbols of pronunciation. These additions will enable the student, instructed by native teachers, to remember with greater facility the varying articulation of vowel-sounds.
The publishers entertain the hope, that the present work, an humble attempt to assist in the furtherance of philological pursuits, will obtain the encouraging consideration of competent scholars, whose suggestions, available for future editions, are respectfully solicited.
Amharic 23, 24, 25
Anglo-Saxon 73
Arabic 20, 21
Arabic Ligatures 21, 22
Aramaeic 9
Archaic Characters 8, 9
Armenian 53
Assyrian Cuneiform 7
Bohemian (Czechian) 67, 68
Burmese 41
Canarese (or Carnataca ) 42
Chinese 30, 31, 32, 33
Croato-Glagolitic 60
Cufic 9
Cyrillic (or Old Slavonic) 58
Czechian (or Bohemian) 67, 68
Danish 71
Demotic 8
Estrangelo 9
Ethiopic 23, 24, 25
Etruscan 9
Georgian 54
German 70
Glagolitic 59
Gothic 74
Greek 55
Greek Ligatures 56 [157K JPEG]
Greek (Archaic) 9
Gujerati (or Guzerattee) 43
Hieratic 8
Hieroglyphics 8
Hebrew 10, 11, 12
Hebrew (Archaic) 8
Hebrew (Rabbinical) 13
Hebrew (Judaeo-German) 13
Hebrew (Current hand) 14
Hungarian 68
Illyrian 63
Irish 73
Aramaeic 9
Italian (Old-) 9
Japanese 34
Lettish 69
Mantshu 50 51
Median Cuneiform 6
Modern Greek (or Romaic) 57
Mongolian 52
Numidian 8
Old-Slavonic (or Cyrillic) 58
Palmyrenian 9
Persian 27
Persian Cuneiform 5
Phoenician 8
Polish 65
Pushto (or Afghan) 28
Romaic (or Modern Greek) 57
Russian. 61, 62
Runes 75, 76
Samaritan 15
Sanscrit 35, 36, 37, 38
Servian 63
Slavonic (Old-) . 58
Sorbian (or Wendish) 66
Swedish 72
Syriac 16, 17, 18, 19
Tamil 39, 40
Telugu 44
Tibetan 49 [146K JPEG]
Turkish 26
Wallachian 64
Wendish (or Sorbian) 66
Zend 41
