In:The Carthaginian North: Semitic influence on early Germanic: A linguistic and cultural study
Robert Mailhammer and Theo Vennemann
[NOWELE Supplement Series 32] 2019
► pp. 141–186
Chapter 7The origin of the oldest Germanic writing system
Published online: 24 October 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/nss.32.c7
https://doi.org/10.1075/nss.32.c7
Article outline
- 1.The eight questions and their answers
- 1.1Question 1
- 1.2Question 2
- 1.3Question 3
- 1.3.1Punic B /b/, late Punic B /ʋ/
- 1.3.2Punic G /g/, late Punic G /ɰ/
- 1.3.3Punic D /d/, late Punic D /ð/
- 1.3.4Punic he
- 1.3.5Summary of answer to Question 3
- 1.4Question 4
- 1.5Question 5
- 1.6Question 6
- 1.7Question 7
- 1.8Question 8
- 2.The runes for the mediae, b g d
- 3.The doubling theory: An additional argument
- 4.The doubling theory: A further application
- 5.More on the rune order in the rune rows
- 6.The vowel runes
- 6.1The ï rune, ᛇ
- 6.2The i rune, ᛁ
- 6.3The e rune п, ᛖ
- 6.4The o rune, ᛟ
- 6.5Vowel letters in Greek and Germanic: A brief comparison
- 6.5.1Greek (Jensen 1969: 446–447)
- 6.5.2Germanic
- 7.Conclusion
Acknowledgments Notes
