Friday, March 04, 2011

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

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

(continued from MU Luvian Update)

This posting updates the series started here by adding Luvian (also spelled Luwian, formerly Hieroglyphic Hittite) to the syllabic grid for the syllable NA originally published at 32 - The Syllable NA : 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 NA plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

NA

Thumb of lake dwellings
or "huts" from Val
Camonica, Italy
online in an image at

These dwellings or  
"huts" are found
inscribed at Naquane
National Park on Rock
35 near Capo di Ponte.

The Egyptian term NWT
and Greek ναιετάω
“dwell, inhabit” may
find explanation in Indo-
European e.g. Latvian
neiet, i.e. NE-IET
“not go”, i.e. the idea of
home as a place to stay
as opposed to being on
the road viz. in the act
of “going”. “Dwelling” is
“not going”.
Cypriot
syllabary


NA

The vertical
line is a holder
for the main
meaning of
multi-levels or
multi-supports.
__________





in Europe
(Switzerland)
Linear B



(06)
NA
"dwell,
inhabit"
side view.
__________

The Egyptian
NWT “town,
settlement”
could the same
term as Greek
"dwell, inhabit.

Image thumb
from the Lake
Germany.
Phaistos Disk



NA

"dwell,
inhabit"

The Phaistos
Disk sign is
similar in
design to
ancient lake
dwellings
but also to
round
Sumerian
reed houses.

Sumerian
script
had a special
“pillared”
sign for
elevated
buildings.
(see the next
columns
right).
No comparable Axe sign
__________

found the image below
of a Sumerian reed
house

As
writes, also
"the earliest inhabitants
of Egypt lived in
[papyrus] huts....”

Ancient connections?
writes:

"Kato Zakro ... was ... the
main port for dealing
with Egypt, Syria, Gaza
in Palestine and Cyprus.
... [trading] items from
both Syria and Egypt.
Later they extended to
Asia Minor (Turkey),
Rhodes and other
Aegean islands."
Elamite

NA
Floor of a
dwelling
with poles
top view
________
Luvian
) or Ä
NA2

n
NA, NI2
Sumerian
"raised,
elevated"
Sumerian

UNU

Egyptian
NWT
The city
symbol on
Pharaonic
hieroglyphs.

The Egyptian
hieroglyph
NWT
may be the
same word
as Greek
“dwell,
inhabit”