On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c8.24

c8.24

(2) Only such irregular equations of signs are admissible as can be supported by analogies from other cases, where nations are known to have borrowed foreign alphabets. Thus it is not permissible to identify the Kharoṣṭhī sign for *ja* with the Aramaic *ga* on account of a rather remote resemblance between what the modern researches have shown to be a secondary form of the Kharoṣṭhī palatal media and the guttural media of the Aramaeans.