Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages and Foreign Graphics Systems to a Uniform Orthography in European Letters

by Carl Richard Lepsius

This new edition of Carl Richard Lepsius’s Standard Alphabet reproduces the text of the second, enlarged, edition of 1863. The extensive Introduction by J. Alan Kemp places it in its historical setting and provides comments on the phonetic basis for the Alphabet and the notation.

336 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1981

About the author

Karl or Carl Richard Lepsius was Prussian Egyptologist, linguist and pioneer of modern archaeology.

For the geologist (1851-1915), see Richard Lepsius