Tuesday, February 22, 2011

66 - Vowels and W-Based Syllables : 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 66th and last posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Vowels and W-Based Syllables in the Syllabic Grid, i.e. the vowels (A, E, I, O, and U), including the W-based syllables (WA, WE, WI, WU - no WO of course in Sumerian) , which in Sumerian are all covered by the "A" vowel sign A3, Jaritz sign #688.

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 Vowels and W-Based Syllables in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

 
 
The Vowels and W-Based Syllables in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)


CHANGED HEADINGS


CHANGED
CHANGED HEADINGS
CHANGED

Syllabic Value of
the Sign (Symbol)
Cypriot
Syllabary
Linear B
(Ventris etc.)
Linear B
Vowel Signs
Cyprian VOWELS
Egyptian
hieroglyphs
Sumerian
pictographs
A (“ah”)
א - Alef
This vowel placement
merely highlights some
observations and is not
and can not be like the
convincing analysis of
the previous syllables,
for the Phaistos Disk has
no vowel signs at all, so
that full-fledged vowels
must have developed
later at other locations.

Cyprian
W-Signs
_______


There seems
to be a genetic
relationship
between the
W-based
syllables and
the vowels.

Linear B
W-Signs
_______


There seems
to be a genetic
relationship
between the
W-based
syllables and
the vowels.
Linear B
VOWELS

��(08)
“A”

The vowel
“A”
as in “ah”
Cypriot Syllabary signs
show how the vowel
sound is made

“A”
��
The vowel “A”
The mouth is
“full, open, even”
“A” is LABIAL
Egyptian

“A”
   
„J“


LABIAL
Sumerian

“A3”
“arms, side”
covers all:
“A, WA, WE,
WI, WU”
AE
from an original AE
ה - He

house, dwelling place”

Latvian ēka „large
building, edifice, hall”
Latvian vars, valdīšana
„power, dominion
Cypriot
syllabary
��
WA

Luwian has
Linear B WA
upside down
for “dominion
Linear B

��(54)
WA


A rectangular
“temple”
dominion
Linear B

��(38)
“E”

The vowel “E”
A rounded
“temple”
dominion
Cyprian vowel
“E”
��

The vowel “E”
The mouth is
“full, open”, plus more
from the throat or side”
“E” is PHARYNGEAL
Egyptian

dominion

“AE”

PHARYNGEAL
Sumerian

“E”
“temple,
house, go in
or out”
dominion
E, I
י – Yod (Yad is
Hebrew for “hand”)
“with stout fibers” ?
These signs point to a
concept related to
“hand”. Latvian iedot
“in give” and ieņem “in
take” may provide a clue
Cypriot
syllabary



��
WI
Linear B




��(75)

WE
Linear B



��(28)
I
The vowel “I”
Cyprian vowel
“I”
��
The vowel “I”
“less full or open, and
more from the top”
“I” IS UVULAR
Egyptian


“the arm”


“IE”

UVULAR
Sumerian
“I”
“five”
surely as “hand, arm”
I, O
ו - Waw
that which one has as
possessions or property
inside the house
(compare to the next
vowel)
Cypriot
syllabary

��
WE

Linear B

��(40)
WI
one sees the
I” within the
tent-like sign
Linear B


��(61)
“O”
The vowel
“O”
Cyprian vowel

“O”
��
The vowel “O”
“toward the bottom”
“O” is VELAR”
Egyptian


“OO”
“W”

VELAR
Sumerian
There was
no “O” in
Sumerian.
Its O and U  
sound as in
Latvian “O”
was
perhaps
an UO
dipthong.
O, U
ו - Waw
house, roof or eye over
one’s head (that which
one has a domicile)
one's own substance,
property, outside the
house, i.e. the dwelling

Cypriot
syllabary

��
WO

“house, roof or
eye over one’s
head”
(outside)
Linear B


��(42)
WO


having an eye
on one’s
domicile”
Linear B



��(10)
“U”
The vowel
“U”
“raised
high”
Cyprian vowel

“U”
��
The vowel “U”
“mostly closed
and the lips out”
“raised high”
“U” is a HIGH BACK
CLOSE VOWEL
Sumerian

Ú
U5, U11
“raised high”
Latvian UZ
“on, above”
Sumerian


U3, U7

“having an
eye on one’s
domicile”

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