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The one primeval language traced experimentally through ancient inscriptions in alphabetic characters of lost powers from the four continents including the voice of Israel from the rocks of Sinai and the vestiges of patriarchal tradition from the monuments of Egypt, Eturia, and southern Arabia (1851)

Forster, Charles, d. 1871 · London : R. Bentley · leaf 111

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and the duck, withtheir common, and most usual, Arabic denomi-nations, j. 01* J J, wazz or iwazz, and k,, hatt,beneath or beside the birds. The characters inthe first example are remarkable for their essen-tial identity with the Hamyaritic a and z ofSouthern Arabia. The z, indeed, both in formand… … O I rf jj b wfl^, Anser. A goose. LnJ (i. q. ^S bat, A.nas, sed intcUigendus major: nc?npeAnser.) l»j waix, Alias. A duck. THE MONUMENTS OF EGYPT. 91 ■-^AAA^^AAAA,

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