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	The Arabic Language Script
		The Greek alphabet is the ancestor of modern European script.
		The length of consonants in Nabataean script is not marked at all, and it is still limited to the repertory of the Aramaic script, which is inadequate for the consonant phonemes of Arabic.
		The Diwani script is a cursive style of Arabic calligraphy developed during the reign of the early Ottoman Turks (16th-early 17th century).
	www.indiana.edu /~arabic/arabic_script.htm (2367 words)

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		The prevailing theory is that is that the script was used for religious purposes in a traditional agricultural society.
		The main theorizer on the subject of the Old European Script (and the person who came up with the name for it) was Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994), renowned as a major 20th century archaeologist and a primary founder of modern Indo-European studies.
		Pešić's critics have claimed that he is motivated by an nationalistic desire to claim a Slavic presence in the Balkans far earlier than the usually accepted date; hence, for instance, his claim that the poet Homer must have spoken a Slavonic dialect (Pešić, 1989).
	www.informationclub.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vinca_alphabet.html (1333 words)

	Writing Mongol in Uighur Script
		Script is written in a continuous pen stroke for the length of a word, with accents added after the word is complete, and requires that each letter accommodate the letters before and after it.
		This is a script alphabet, which means the pen should write a continuous line, for the most part, from the beginning to the end of the word.
		The Mongol Script was adopted from Uighur in 1204.
	www.viahistoria.com /SilverHorde/research/UighurScript.html (3677 words)

	SCRIPT
		Old Persian is what the original Parsa tribe of the Hakahmaneshinian era spoke and they have left for us samples carved on stone in cuneiform script.
		Although the scribes were using cuneiform script for centuries it, never occurred to them before, and it was under the Iranians that it was developed into an alphabet denoting sound.
		Although the Arabic script was not capable of recording the sounds of Paarsi language even after addition of additional alphabets not found in Arabic such as PH - CHA - JAH - GH; it became the official script for writing Paarsi.
	www.ahura.homestead.com /files/IranZaminEight/HISTORY_OF_PERSIAN___SCRIPT.htm (2092 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Old European Script
		The dominant classical and scholarly language of the Indian subcontinent, the sacred language of Hinduism (with Pali), a scriptural language of Buddhism, and the oldest known...
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	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Old+European+Script (1566 words)

	Old Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Old Europe was a Neolithic civilisation, living of agriculture and the breeding of domestic animals.
		She interpreted Old Europe as a civilisation of the Goddess, a concept which has taken on a life of its own in the modern New Age industry, extending far beyond anything Gimbutas herself could ever have imagined.
		Indeed, in recent years, Old European artefacts were even discovered in Southeastern France, suggesting that the civilisation of Old Europe travelled not merely to the East, but also to the West.
	www.philipcoppens.com /oldeurope.html (2266 words)

	Ogam Script - Crystalinks
		The script was used by the monks as a monument script between 450 and 800 A.D. and they used it for literary purposes between 650 and 900 A.D. Every time the script was inscribed in stone it must have been used thousands of times on sticks, for which medium the script was obviously designed.
		Damien McManus, at Trinity College, Dublin, suggested that the Ogam script had its origin in the scoring of the tally stick, a knife cut for each count, a V for five scores, an "X" for ten etc. From this simple beginning the system was only an inventor's step away from writing.
		In her monumental book, "The Language of the Goddess", Marija Gimbutas describes the much alike "Old European Script" the earliest evidence of which she dates at 5300 B.C. It appears therefore that the Ogam script has gone through a very long period of evolution.
	www.crystalinks.com /ogam.html (707 words)

	Old European languages - FrathWiki
		The area across which these Old European river names occur largely coincides with the area where remnants of the central European Neolithic (the so-called Linear Pottery culture) and its daughter cultures can be found.
		For example, the Old European river names show a predominant /a/-vocalism which looks quite un-Indo-European, while the vowels /e/ and /o/ which are frequent in Indo-European appear to have been absent.
		Another problem is that the Old European hydronymy is also well-attested in the British Isles, where Vennemann assumes an entirely different language (of the Afro-Asiatic family) to have been spoken.
	wiki.frath.net /Old_European_languages (551 words)

	Old European Script: Encyclopedia II - Old European Script - The discovery of the script
		Old European Script - The discovery of the script: Encyclopedia II - Old European Script - The discovery of the script
		Old European Script, Old European Script - The discovery of the script, Old European Script - Meaning of the symbols, Old European Script - Controversial issues
		Old European Script - The discovery of the script
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Old_European_Script_-_The_discovery_of_the_script/id/1980213 (725 words)

	Decoding the Indus Script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The script was an absolutely unknown one, it was not found anywhere in conjunction with another known script and the inscrip- tions on the seals were nowhere of any great length than a few letters each...
		Moreover, these scholars set out on the exercise with two preconceived notions: first, that the script could not be an alphabatic one, and could only be pictographic- ideographic one; and second, that the language of the inscriptions was a Dravidian one (or, in the case of some Indian scholars, that it was sanskrit)....
		Then, he decided to examine, without prejudice, those scripts and alphabates of the world which were closest, in time, to the Indus script, to see whether those scripts or alphabates could give any clue as to the sound-value which could be assigned to these basic letters.
	www.hindunet.org /hindu_history/ancient/indus/indus_script.html (1250 words)

	Aryan Invasion Theroy and Politics: The Case of David Duke
		All that is required is that the Harappan script was adopted and adapted by some of the satellite populations in the vicinity of the metropolitan area.
		It shares these characteristics with the later Brahmi script, out of which the modern Indian alphabets were developed, and with the Semitic alphabets in their advanced stage, when vowel marks were added for use in contexts where exact pronunciation was deemed of utmost importance, e.g.
		The disappearance of the Vinca script is used as a strong argument against Colin Renfrew's thesis that the first agricultural society, of whose expansion the Vinca culture was a part, was IE-speaking (just as the disappearance of the Harappan script would have been an argument against continuity with the "subsequent" Indo-Aryan culture).
	koenraadelst.bharatvani.org /articles/aid/vedicharrapans.html (7271 words)

	Definition of Old European Script
		Thus the culture represented is called the Vinca-Tordos culture, and the script often called the Vinca-Tordos script.
		Later in life she turned her attention to the reconstruction of a hypothetical pre-Indo-European Old European culture, which she thought spanned most of Europe.
		Most archaeologists and linguists disagree with Gimbutas' interpretation of the Vinča signs as a script: it is all but universally accepted among scholars that the Sumerian cuneiform script is in fact the earliest form of writing.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Old_European_Script (1574 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Indus Script
		It appears that the maximum number of Indus script symbols is 400, although there are 200 basic signs (ie signs that are not combined from others).
		This means that the Indus script is probably logophonetic, in that it has both signs used for their meanings, and signs used for their phonetic values.
		Old Tamil (a Dravidian language still spoken today) texts from just around the 1st century AD recorded the name of the Pleiades, a star cluster visible during autumn and winter just above Orion, as "Six-Stars", or aru-mîn.
	ancientscripts.com /indus.html (1620 words)

	Origins of the Ogham
		Graves (1966) postulated a much older origin, and his evidence, much of which is disputed by classical scholars, would tend to link the ogham to cultures of the eastern Mediterranean.
		(1964) categorize the European flora in geographic areas that correspond to the countries of Europe in the 1960s (this is not scientifically sound, since plants don't obey national boundaries, but it was undoubtedly politically expedient).
		Old European civilization was well-developed in the Balkan peninsula, which lacks furze.
	www.csupomona.edu /~jcclark/ogham/ogh-orig.html (638 words)

	Mesopotamia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The oud is regarded as a precursor to the European lute.
		Houses are mostly known from Old Bablylonian remains at Nippur and Ur.
		Among the textual sources on building construction and associated rituals, Gudea's cylinders from the late 3rd millennium are notable, as well as the Assyrian and Babylonian royal inscriptions from the Iron Age.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mesopotamia (4521 words)

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	www.europeanvoice.com /archive/issue.asp?id=148 (2564 words)

	The Karanovo Zodiac and Old European Linear
		Old Europe was extremely rich in iconographic, totemistic representational and symboling structures, [35] yet with the Karanovo Zodiac we are faced with a modern, near-scientific renderly of the illusory phenomenon of the ecliptical zodiac.
		From the growing collection of Old European Linear inscriptions a sequential constellation map, or zodiac, has been discerned, which may imply that possible astronomical significance or calendrical values are contained in other inscribed examples of Old European Linear.
		I believe future investigations of Old European Linear should not concern themselves solely with what eventual effects the script had on subsequent writing systems, but should rather concentrate on what notation, iconographic, and calendar or zodiac symbols preceded and at some point, became the Old European Linear script.
	www.flavinscorner.com /kz2.htm (3074 words)

	Indus Script and Telugu
		It is said that the tradition of writing had been revived sometime after the death of Buddha although early European researchers tended to believe that this revival might have been around the eighth century before Christ.
		In the absence of a convincing proof to the contrary, it may be safe to assume that the prevailing theories are reasonably representative of history.
		That is the reason for the combined Telugu-Kannada script to have been called as the "old Kannada." This in turn does not mean that Telugu people were non-literate during the periods when Kannada and Tamil people were producing works of literature.
	www.engr.mun.ca /~adluri/telugu/language/script/script1a.html (1704 words)

	[math/0309157] The Number System of the Old European Script
		4000 BC) undeciphered language is the Old European Script known from approximately 940 inscribed objects (82% of inscriptions on pottery) found in excavations in the Vinca-Tordos region Transylvania.
		Also, it is not known for what the script was used, but the prevailing theory is that it had a religious purpose.
		Here we delineate the number system of the Old European Script, and propose that the Old European Script may have been used for economic purposes.
	arxiv.org /abs/math/0309157 (186 words)

	old_european_script_tartaria_tablet_dispilio_tablet_vinca_culture
		By varying and repeating-inverting-contrasting the root-signs, the repertory of the proto-European script came to contain 231 individual signs.
		The proto-European script seems to possess a great tendency for abstract signs, perhaps the result of a "geometric revolution" that occurred in ancient times.
		Griffen's "goddess" sign is two vertical strokes, apparently symbolizing a vulva; this is reminiscent of the Linear B "female" sign, two upright slanting strokes.
	www.uned.es /geo-1-historia-antigua-universal/ESCRITURAS_ANTIGUA/Escrituras_3__antiguas_BALKAN_DANUBE-SCRIPT.htm (5157 words)

	Old Testament Texts and versions: Early versions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is a composite of the Old Palestinian Targum and an early version of Onkelos with an admixture of material from diverse periods.
		For this reason, the Old Latin version is especially valuable because it reflects the state of the Septuagint before Origen's revision.
		The textual confusion and the vulgar and colloquial nature of the Old Latin recension had become intolerable to the church authorities by the last decade of the 4th century, and c.
	www.thinkbible.net /bible/oldtest3.htm (1969 words)

	The Gradešnica script revisited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The scholars who have the script choice in mind are inclined to perceive the characteristic layout (according to our contemporary eyes) of complex writing messages, whereas scholars who have the decorative option in mind tend to force the original patterns in a symmetric way.
		The vertical progressing direction of a text is one of the most important indicators in order to distinguish between the earlier cuneiform scripts of the Old period Babylonians to those of the later period.
		The Old Elamite, a partially deciphered syllabic script derived from Proto-Elamite and in use between about 2250 and 2220 BC though it was probably invented at an earlier date, consisted of about 80 signs written in vertical columns progressing from top to bottom and left to right.
	arheologie.ulbsibiu.ro /publicatii/ats/ats5/2merlini.htm (15749 words)

	File: <whatogam
		The fact that not a single one of these scripts in Ireland and Scotland had been successfully translated is not so much the fault of the monks who wrote the texts, as of our linguists, all of whom assumed that the language of the script was Gaelic.
		Gambutas describes the much alike "Old European Script" the earliest evidence of which she dates at 5,300 bce..
		Most of the Scottish inscriptions are made by Christian missionaries using the ancient script to convert the worshippers of the ancient Goddess religion to Christianity.
	www.faculty.ucr.edu /~legneref/bronze/whatogam.htm (754 words)

	The Old European Civilizations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Although these Old European civilizations were in fact quite distinct from classical Greece and Rome, they are often mistakenly thought of as one and the same thing.
		The crucial difference is however that the Old European civilizations were created by the original continental Europeans (Proto-Nordic, Alpine and Mediterranean, with the latter two being in the majority) while the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome received their impetus from Indo-European or Nordic invasions which had started around 5000 BC.
		The continental Old European civilizations in the Aegean were the Cretan civilization, centered at Knossos on the island of Crete; the city state of Troy situated adjacent to the Dardanelles in Asia Minor; certain smaller city states on the Greek mainland; and the Etruscans in Italy.
	www.stormfront.org /whitehistory/hwr4.htm (1533 words)

	National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com)
		The controversy over the U.N., the debate about Old and New Europe, the French-German anti-American axis — they are not so much reactions to what we have done as they are expressions of a pre-existing and very unhealthy relationship that was already eroding well before September 11.
		The NATO plea that Europeans would like to have helped out more in Iraq, if we had just been more diplomatic — in the way that they had deployed to Afghanistan — is a myth.
		Begging miffed Europeans to help in Iraq or Afghanistan in real numbers while tens of thousands of Americans are stationed in Europe is the stuff of fairy tales.
	www.nationalreview.com /script/printpage.p?ref=/hanson/hanson200404020835.asp (1841 words)

	Mythinglinks / Europe: Old Europe
		Finding her evidence in a meticulous study of Old Europe's unique pottery and sculpture, and combining the tools of archaeology, comparative mythology, linguistics, and folklore, Gimbutas developed a new interdisciplinary field: archaeomythology.
		Later, I got a paperback edition of Gimbutas' Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe (a title for which she had to fight because the publisher wanted to start with "Gods" and put "Goddesses" second) -- and loved its clarity and sense of vision, a vision too often lacking in graduate studies.
		The non-Indo-Europeans of Old Europe, the proto-Indo-Aryans, and all the rest of the issues related to this field are intricately interlocked and bewildering.
	www.mythinglinks.org /euro~west~oldeurope.html (1200 words)

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