The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s26.7

c10.s26.7

Of course the fact remains that though, on the above hypothesis, the sign 𐀄 represents merely a simple vowel (or semivowel) in the spoken tongue, still in actual writing 𐀄 would in point of fact often stand between, and so separate, two words; and it is possible that this may have been the origin of the later Phoenician device of indicating the separation of words by a vertical stroke, .