Manichaean elements in the Turkic Brâhmî

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dc.contributor.authorHitch, Douglas A
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-15T19:46:50Z
dc.date.available2016-06-15T19:46:50Z
dc.date.issued1982-09
dc.description.abstractWhen a script suited to one language is used to write a second, there are often new linguistic features which require some orthographic innovation to be adequately rendered. New signs or devices may be invented outright, old characters and principles may be modified, or features may be borrowed from another already existing orthography. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries numerous manuscripts were brought to light in Chinese Turkestan (modern Xinjiang) in a script which has been labelled the Slanting Gupta. This is a form of Brâhmî writing which contains a number of unusual features which could not have been derived from Indian practice. It has been generally assumed that these features are all either new inventions or modifications of original Brâhmî elements. In contrast to this view, it will be argued here that some characters and principles in the Slanting Gupta were borrowed from the Manicheaean (Syriac Estrangelo) script.en_US
dc.description.refereedYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationHitch, D. A. (1982). Manichaean elements in the Turkic Brâhmî. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 8(Fall), 35-50.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/29031
dc.identifier.issn2371-2643
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/51307
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.departmentLinguisticsen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectLanguage and languages--Orthography and spellingen_US
dc.subjectTurkic languagesen_US
dc.subjectHistorical linguisticsen_US
dc.subjectInscriptions, Old Turkicen_US
dc.subjectManichaean scripten_US
dc.subjectGupta scripten_US
dc.subjectInscriptions, Brahmien_US
dc.subjectBrahmi alphabeten_US
dc.titleManichaean elements in the Turkic Brâhmîen_US
dc.typejournal article
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