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Sunday, March 06, 2011

Syllabic Grid of Ancient Scripts: KA Luvian Update to the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance MinAegCon by Andis Kaulins

Syllabic Grid of Ancient Scripts: KA Luvian Update to the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance MinAegCon by Andis Kaulins

(continued from DU Luvian Update) -- there is no update at this time for the DO syllable

This posting updates the series started here by adding Luvian (also spelled Luwian, formerly Hieroglyphic Hittite) to the syllabic grid for the syllable KA originally published at 52 - The Syllable KA : Origins of Writing in Western Civilization and the Kaulins Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (MinAegCon™): A Syllabic Grid of Mycenaean Greek Linear B Script, the Cypriot Syllabary, the Phaistos Disk, two Old Elamite Scripts, the Inscription on the Axe of Arkalochori, and Comparable Signs from Sumerian Pictographs and Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

If I have found no comparable Luvian syllable in mainstream sources, there is no update posting for that syllable. This applies particularly to syllables with the vowel "O", which predecessor Sumerian did not have (apparently also not in Luvian). Syllables with the vowel "E" are alleged by Luvian scholars not to have been used for Luvian, though I think otherwise. My research indicates that also Luvian had "consonant plus vowel E" (or similar sound) syllables and I include them if I have been able to identify them (provisionally, of course, subject to ultimate confirmation).

Each syllable will be presented in its own posting.

There is first a scanned image of a "syllabic" grid excerpt from the original Microsoft Word manuscript -- the links there are not clickable because it is one image.

The original text follows -- the links there are clickable -- but embedded fonts or images may be missing because Blogger does not pick them all up from Microsoft Word, so use the scanned image for those.


The Syllable KA plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)


KA viz. XA (German CH)
These signs mark a
“crossroads” location
such as a town, village,
city, or other settlement
Variants of this ancient
sign for ”an X marks the
spot”

are found as far away as
Egypt and China.

Sumerian KALAM will be
cognate with Greek
earth” with KALAM =
KERAM.  A cognate term
is maybe Greek χαμαί
"ground (location)"
Cypriot
syllabary




KA



The lower
horizontal ine
is the ground
surface and the
arrow
represents the
location.
Linear B


(77)
KA

Represents a
“ground”
location such
as a town, city,
village, or
crossroads
Scholars read
Linear B KA-KE
as “copper”
but consider
XA(L)-KE
Phaistos Disk




KA

town, city,
village or
crossroads,
also perhaps
walled or
pillared
building,
palace or
fortification
No comparable Axe sign
__________
Ancient China
City symbol

Egyptian
The crossroads sign took
its name from dwellings
NTW
See NA.
Elamite

KA
Luvian
K
KA
HAR
H
HA
KAR
Sumerian
KALAM
“Sumer,
land, nation”
KI
“place”
GAGAR
“area”
Egyptian
XA