On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c5.12
On the Origin of the Indian Brāhma Alphabet c5.12
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(5) According to M. J. Halévy it is of a composite character eight consonants having been taken directly from the Aramaic alphabet of the fourth century B. C., six consonants and two initial vowels as well as the medial vowels together with the Anusvāra from the Ariano-Pali or Kharoṣṭhī, and five from the Greek; and this hotch-potch is alleged to have been concocted about 325 B. C.⁶