Terrien De Lacouperie, “The Old Babylonian Characters and their Chinese Derivatives”, 1888.

Terrien De Lacouperie, “The Old Babylonian Characters and their Chinese Derivatives”, 1888 was a linguistic science book on language classification.  “Old Babylonian” is phonetically described by the syllabary table (shown below).  The writer, Terrien De Lacouperie asserted that “Ancient Chinese” and “Old Babylonian” were two languages with a common origin. The interesting thing about this assertion … Continue reading Terrien De Lacouperie, “The Old Babylonian Characters and their Chinese Derivatives”, 1888.