1. The Old Persian /L/ Phoneme
- Author
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Herbert H. Paper
- Subjects
Cultural Studies ,Syllabary ,History ,Writing system ,Old Persian ,Argument ,Order (business) ,General Arts and Humanities ,Linguistic evidence ,language ,Paragraph ,Linguistics ,language.human_language - Abstract
WAS THE OP SYLLABARY an ad hoc invention under the Achaemenids or is it the much eroded survivor of an older and more complete writing system? * This problem has been repeatedly discussed chiefly by reference to the evidence from the Greek sources, from Aramaeo-Pehlevi scribal practice, and from the more direct-though not completely clear-evidence in paragraph 70 of the Bisitun inscription.' The argument offered in this paper is submitted in order to show that internal linguistic evidence available from the OP language itself has not been completely exhausted. An examination of the relevant handbooks re
- Published
- 1956