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The Writing of Njoya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

O. G. S. Crawford
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Antiquity , Volume 9 , Issue 36 , December 1935 , pp. 435 - 442
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1935

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References

1 ‘Der Koenig von Bamun und seine Schrift’. Der evangelisdie Heidenbote (Basel), vol. LXXX, no. 6.

2 Revue d’Ethnographie et des Traditions populaires, 1922, pp. 11–36.Google Scholar

3 See note at end.

4 An ideograph has been defined as ‘a drawing representing not a sound, nor even a word, but an idea’; the oldest known signs were not ideographs but pictographs.

5 The oldest alphabetic signs are those of Sinai and Syria, which belong to the middle of the second millennium B.C. or before.

6 I have always held this view, though I have never developed it. (See for instance my remarks in Ordnance Survey Professional Paper No. 6, ‘Long Barrows of the Cotswolds’, 1922, p. 5). I differ from orthodox diffusionists in my views about the country of origin and in the method of diffusion, as well as from many of their subsidiary theories.—O.G.S.C