Terrien De Lacouperie, “The Old Babylonian Characters and their Chinese Derivatives”, 1888 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Terrien De Lacouperie, “The Old Babylonian Characters and their Chinese Derivatives”, 1888, Part Two (2).
Terrien De Lacouperie, states on page 20 and I quote:
“The fragments of tablet or tablets found at Nineveh, where figures are given as explanation of characters, cannot be looked upon otherwise than as part of a sort of guide-book to illustrate the meanings of some characters, without any archaeological purposes, nor any reference to their historical etymology. So that it is not at all unlikely, considering the remote date of the oldest signs known (4,000 BC).”
Here I presented: Terrien De Lacouperie, “The Old Babylonian Characters and their Chinese Derivatives”, 1888, Part Two (2).
SUMMARY
The quotation on page 20 by Terrien De Lacouperie I presented the essence of this publication.
”The fragments of tablet or tablets found at Nineveh …”
The map of the most ancient languages of the Middle East is shown BELOW. Cuneiform writing is found throughout this region of ancient Western Asia.
The statement in the quotation:
“So that it is not at all unlikely, considering the remote date of the oldest signs known (4,000 BC).”
4,000 BC in Mesopotamia is the oldest known writing in history.
At Nineveh, the Library of Ashurbanipal consists of 30,000 tablets. Many consider this among the greatest archaeological discovery of all time.
Many linguists considered what Terrien De Lacouperie attempted; and, most linguists consider it as a “language isolate”.
