(continued from NO 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 NU originally published at 36 - The Syllable NU : 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 NU plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
NU The Linear B sign of two half circles represents "night" by showing the period of darkness as the period between the setting and rising sun(s). Difficult to represent. Compare: the modern Yes Zulu Watch which calculates night for 500 different world cities. In ancient days, marking night was not so simple. | Cypriot syllabary � � NE The Cypriot sign is most similar to the Sumerian sign and combines the semi- circles into one contiguous jagged two- halved line. | Linear B ,� �(55) NU Two half circles represent "night as the period of darkness between the setting and rising sun(s). "night" | Phaistos Disk � � NU The heavenly firmament with dots to represent the stars in the night sky on the sweep of heaven’s arc. | No comparable Axe sign __________ Hieroglyphs Egyptologists see NUT as a "sky" goddess, but she is the NIGHT sky only. The “sky hieroglyph” is read as pt "visible sky", (correct is pāriet) and is not the same as hrw “hours of the day”. The hieroglyphs are read as grH “night” (ca. vak-ar-ā) same as Indo-European, e.g. Latvian for “in evening”. Latvian kar(ā) is “hang”, the determinative sign. | Elamite NU Like Linear B but hemi- spheres turned. Luvian … NU2 night stars | Sumerian INANNA NIN2 “the eye of night sky” Egyptian NUT "night sky" |
