The Aryan Origin of the Alphabet (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781578989416)

2010 Reprint of 1927 First Edition. Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell (1854 - 1938) was a British explorer, collector in Tibet, and author. He traveled in India throughout the 1890s (including Sikkim and areas on the borders of Nepal and Tibet) and wrote about the Tibetan Buddhist religious practices he observed there. In his later works he tried to synthesize Western and Near Eastern cultures. In this work he proposes an Aryan (i.e., Indo-European) origin of the alphabet. His point of departure is the presumed Semitic origin of the Alphabet, against which he makes an argument for an actual Aryan origin. Illustrated in the text and with two large plates.

Author: Laurence Austine Waddell
ISBN-10: 1578989418
ISBN-13: 9781578989416
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Language: English
Published: 07/05/2010
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.20d