The quality of the image scan here is improved over the version posted at 66.
(continued from ZU Luvian Update)
This posting updates the series started here by adding Luvian (also spelled Luwian, formerly Hieroglyphic Hittite) to the syllabic grid for the Vowels and the W-Based syllables originally published at 66 - Vowels and W-Based Syllables : 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.
Vowels & W-based Syllables + Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (Andis Kaulins)
CHANGED HEADINGS | CHANGED | CHANGED HEADINGS | CHANGED | |||
Syllabic Value of the Sign (Symbol) | Cypriot Syllabary | Linear B (Ventris etc.) | Linear B Vowel Signs | Cyprian VOWELS | Egyptian hieroglyphs | Sumerian pictographs |
A (“ah”) א - Alef This vowel placement merely highlights some observations and is not and can not be like the convincing analysis of the previous syllables, for the Phaistos Disk has no vowel signs at all, so that full-fledged vowels must have developed later at other locations. | Cyprian W-Signs _______ There seems to be a genetic relationship between the W-based syllables and the vowels. | Linear B W-Signs _______ Luvian e.g. Latvian acs „eye“ | Linear B VOWELS � �(08) “A” The vowel “A” as in “ah” | Cypriot Syllabary signs show how the vowel sound is made “A” � � The vowel “A” The mouth is “full, open, even” “A” is LABIAL | Egyptian “A” „J“ LABIAL Luvian W, WA | Sumerian "A3", WA, WE, WI, WU “arms, side” Luvian e.g. Latvian |
AE from an original AE ה - He “house, dwelling place” Latvian ēka „large building, edifice, hall” was = Latvian valds “rule”, see also „power, dominion” | Cypriot syllabary � � WA _______ This sign is upside down of Cyprian MA | Linear B � �(54) WA “temple” dominion (Luvian "dominion") | Linear B � �(38) “E” The vowel “E” A rounded “temple” dominion | Cyprian vowel “E” � � The vowel “E” The mouth is “full, open”, plus more from the throat or side” “E” is PHARYNGEAL | Egyptian “dominion” “AE” PHARYNGEAL | Sumerian “E” temple dominion Luvian V WA |
E, I י – Yod (Yad is Hebrew for “hand”) “with stout fibers” ? These signs point to a concept related to “hand”. Latvian iedot “in give” and ieņem “in take” may provide a clue | Cypriot syllabary � � WI | Linear B � �(75) WE Luvian | Linear B � �(28) “I” The vowel “I” | Cyprian vowel “I” � � The vowel “I” “less full or open, and more from the top” “I” IS UVULAR | Egyptian “the arm” “IE” UVULAR Luvian ç WÍ | Sumerian “I” “five” i.e. as “hand, arm” Luvian A,"I" ! ? |
I, O ו – Waw that which one has as possessions or property inside the house (compare to the next vowel) | Cypriot syllabary � � WE | Linear B � �(40) WI one sees the “I” within the tent-like sign | Linear B � �(61) “O” The vowel “O” | Cyprian vowel “O” � � The vowel “O” “toward the bottom” “O” is VELAR” | Egyptian “OO” “W” VELAR Luvian í WA5 | Sumerian There was no “O” in Sumerian. Luvian &and Ü I, IÁ |
O, U ו - Waw house, roof or eye over one’s head (that which one has a domicile) one's own substance, property, outside the house, i.e. the dwelling Indo-European Homophonic (same- sounding) is e.g. Latvian UZ “on, above” | Cypriot syllabary � � WO “house, roof or eye over one’s head” (outside) | Linear B � �(42) WO having an eye on one’s domicile” | Linear B � �(10) “U” The vowel “U” “raised high” | Cyprian vowel “U” � � The vowel “U” “mostly closed and the lips out” “raised high” “U” is a HIGH BACK CLOSE VOWEL | Sumerian Ú, U5, U11 “raised high” Luvian WA "terra" | Sumerian U3, U7 “eye on domicile” Luvian F WA6 “terra” |