The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c9.15

c9.15

My conclusion is that the Proto-Indian script is connected as to its origin with Egypt on the one hand, and Sumer-Elam on the other; that the script is, on the majority if not on all of our texts, a simplified syllabary of open and closed syllables, roughly 250 in number, many of them constituting complete words; that from the open syllables of this script are derived the Brahmi quasi-alphabetic script, and a large portion of Sabaean; that it is quite possible that Phoenician and Cypriote are likewise modifications of Proto-Indian, which however presupposes a common meeting ground of their sailors and merchants in the Isthmus of Suez and the mines of Sinai - at least evidence of any such intercourse at this point would assist in deciding whether the morphographic resemblances are coincidental or not. This of course reopens the question of the origin of the Alphabet, and suggests that Proto-Indian was an all-important link in the chain of its development from pictographic origins.