(continued from RE 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 RI originally published at 18 - The Syllable RI : 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 RI plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
RI rhy Most of the signs are a ῥυτόν “rhyton”,a container for fluids, while the Phaistos Disk has a sign I mistook 30 years ago for a plant leaf but which is actually a plant root, a rhizome, simpler Greek ῥιζόω “to plant, strike root”. | Cypriot syllabary: � � RO (Must RI and RO values, not the signs as placed, be exchanged in the Cypriotic?) | Linear B � �(53) RI A rhyton on a table-like support. | Phaistos Disk � � RI Mistaken as a plant leaf but actually a plant root, rhizome. | No similar sign on Axe __________ Linear B linguistic view that "The r-series includes ... /r/ and /l/ phonemes is incorrect. rhyton, Agia Triada | Elamite RI Luvian R RI rhyton | Sumerian IRIG “conical oil voluminous |
