47 - The Syllable LA : 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

This is the 47th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable LA in the Syllabic Grid. Each syllable is presented in its own posting.

There is first a scan of a "syllabic" table excerpt from the original Microsoft Word manuscript -- the links there are not clickable because it is one image.

That image is followed by the original text -- the links there are clickable -- but you can not see the Aegean Fonts or images embedded in Microsoft Word, as these do not resolve in Blogger, so you will see some "filler" material. After I get all the syllables online, I will clean up the individual pages by making images of the various signs and uploading them to eliminate the current text resolution deficiencies, but it is a massive amount of tedious extra graphics work, so I am not doing it right now, as it is not essential for online purposes. One can see the full grid for the syllable on the scanned image.

The Syllable LA in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

LA Linear B had L-based syllables, contrary to the concept of current mainstream scholarship. λαός is "the people", Found also in Sumerian, an L-based term for “people, person” is widespread  in Indo European languages. Wiktionary: Old High German liutī, also liudī, ... Old Norse lýðir ... Old Saxon liudi, Old English lēode "people", Russian люди  Bulgarian люде. Latvian palatalized L in ļaudis ”people, folk”. λαβή “handle, grip” That is the Cypriot sign and Sumerian LUD.

Cypriot syllabary 𐠏 LA This sign was a lot of trouble. I expected it to be a person as in Linear B. But in comparing it to Cypriot MI it could only be a container on the ground. It represents a handle or grip λαβή and a small bowl.

Linear B Read in error as JE 𐀋(46) LA “a person” Sumerian and Cypriot LUD “small bowl with handle” is homophonic with LUD “person”. This match astonished.

Phaistos Disk 𐇒 LA λαός "person” The term is derived from the concept of “the people, folk, laymen, laity”.

Axe of Arkalochori 󿼋and󿼇 LA λαός “a person” 2 variants of this sign are found on the Axe of Arkalochori as frontal faces, rather than as side profiles. The small variation in the two signs occurs surely only because they were etched on the axe separately by hand.

Elamite LA Elamite has a frontal face view. Egyptian nDs “commoner” N instead of L, so e.g. palatalized Latvian ĻAUDIS „folk”

Sumerian LUD “small bowl” (Jaritz #575) LU2 “person” (Jaritz #611) Cuneiform 𒇽 (LÚ) for people and professions