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482 The Turkic Runic script: Is the hypothesis of its indigenous origin no more viable? (Guzev V. G., Kljashtornyj S. G. The Turkic Runic Script: Is the Hypothesis of Its Indigenous Origin No More Viable? // Sergei Kljyashtornyj. Old Turkic Runic Texts and History of the Eurasian Steppe. Edited by Victor Spinei and Cristina Spinei. Bucureştı — Braila: Editura Academiei Române. Muzeul Brailei Editura Istros, 2008. P. 17–26.) The present paper is an attempt to respond to a number of publications on the origin of the Old Turkic runiform script (hereafter cited as OTRS) which have appeared during the last few decades. With growing certain- ty their authors have been developing the hypothesis of a foreign origin and therefore the adoption of this script. First of all we mean the following contributions: G. Clauson (the OTRS was devised by one person, possibly a Sogdian, “by taking the Iranian alphabet as backbone, supplementing it with a few letters from a. Greek alphabet”) 1 , I. V. Kormushin (the OTRS is based on a Semitic script) 2 , A. S. Amanžolov (searching after genetic re- 1 Clauson G. The origin of the Turkish “Runic” Alphabet // Acta Orientalia. XXXII. 1970. P. 51–76. 2 Kopмушин H. B. К основным понятиям тюркской рунической палеографии // Советская тюркология/ No 2. 1975. P. 25–47.

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