(continued from GU 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 ZA originally published at 62 - The Syllable ZA : 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 ZA plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
ZA with many variants and cognates Compare other archaic Indo-European tongues e.g. such as Latvian dzīve “life” which will show a very archaic form of the root in the DZ- format. Sumerian „man as a being“ and „necklace“ are homophonic „same- sounding“ terms, thus one of several possible explanations for the ANKH’s origin as an amulet of protection. | Cypriot syllabary � � XA Other Cypriot signs suggests that these symbols are “sides” as the arms of “man as a being”. possible as a root word | Linear B � � (17) ZA _______ The Egyptian live” is the same symbol. Several alternative explanations can be made based on the Sumerian signs. ANZAG is "border of heaven, (Sun?) horizon". | Phaistos Disk � � ZA protection fetter for animals or collar modern horse collars | No comparable Axe sign __________ Speculative: Egyptian ANKH and Sumerian ANZAG written as AN ZAG one above the other could be related ? Luvian The ZA and Zi signs (horizons without the Sun?) differ only in terms of the bottom "sash" = vowel longer ? | No Elamite sign yet _______ Egyptian “protection fetter” ZA Luvian i ZA "horizon, boundary" | Sumerian ZA ”necklace” or “man as a being” ZI "life" (see ZE) Indo- European compare Latvian “necklace” "life" |
