[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1898) › c8.55 # On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c8.55 On the Origin of the Indian Brāhma Alphabet c8.55 - **Language:** English ### [c8.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1898.c8.55) No 20. The oldest representatives of the Semitic \*Taw\* appear in the dental \*tha\* (Col. IV, a), which consists of the old Assyrian \[60\] Aramaic \*Taw\* (Col. I, a) of the 8th century B. C.,⁴ or of a slight modification of the very similar Saqqārah letter (Col. I, b) (turned round from the right to the left) \*plus\* the bar of aspiration on the right, about which more will be said below, and in the lingual \*ṭa\* (Col. IV, b—c), where the second stroke on the right in \*b\* and on the left in \*c\* denotes the organic difference or, as the Hindus would say, the difference in the Varga. In the second form of \*ṭa\* (Col. IV, c) the bar, which originally stood at the side, has been added at the top, and out of such a form the dental \*ta\* (Col. III) - [Previous: c8.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1898.c8.54) - [Next: c8.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1898.c8.56) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1898.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1898.c8.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1898.c8.55) · Pramāṇa