The term, 'Carian alphabet' refers to a number of regional scripts once used to write the Carian language of western Anatolia. It was first discovered to be an alphabet in 1965 and deciphered in 1981 by John D. Ray.
Carian
A stele depicting a false-door with Carian inscriptions
By Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56199678
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Maps
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DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched
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Bibliography
Author | Year | Publication | Publisher |
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Melchert, Craig | 2008 | The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor, Carian, 64-68 | Cambridge University Press |
Melchert, H. Craig, ed. Woodard, Roger D. | 2008 | The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor | Cambridge University Press |
Ray, John D. | 1982 | The Carian Script, NEW SERIES, No. 28 (208) (1982), p. 77-90 | Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society |
Revesz, Peter Z. | 2017 | The Cretan Script Family Includes the Carian Alphabet | MATEC Web of Conferences 125, 05019 (2017) |
Swiggers, Pierre and Wolfgang Jennings | 1996 | The World's Writing Systems, The Anatolian Alphabets, 281-287 | Oxford University Press |