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How the Sumerian Origin of the Alphabet was discovered
On finding, by my new Aryan keys, that the Phœnicians were "Sumerians," and the leading seafaring branch of the Early Aryans, and that the Early "Sumerian" dynasty of Uruaś-the-Khad ("Ur Nina") was the First Dynasty of the Phœnicians in the fourth millennium B.C., as detailed in my previous works, and that the Sumerian Language was radically Aryan in its vocabulary and structure and was disclosed as the parent of the English and of all the Aryan Family of Languages, ancient and modern, including also the Ancient Egyptian, as shown in my Sumer-Aryan Dictionary and former works, I then observed, many years ago, that most of the alphabetic Cadmean Phœnician letters, as well as the late retrograde Phœnician letters were of substantially the same form as the Sumerian linear pictographs bearing the corresponding simple vowel and simple consonantal phonetic values or sounds (see Plates I— II).
Further detailed examination fully confirmed this observation and disclosed that our Alphabetic Letters, and all the chief Alphabets, ancient and modern, together with their sound-values, had their parent in the Sumerian picture-writing, as announced in my recent works and now detailed in the following pages.
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