(continued from TU 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 DA originally published at 42 - The Syllable DA : 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 DA plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
DA "divide, division, fork (in a path, way or road)" Note that two similar signs on the Axe of Arkalochori thought to be the same syllable are not the same sign. One is DA and the other is SE. The signs as others see them are; I allege, based on photographs made of an erroneous simplified copy of the axe. A photo of the original axe shows this, as later proven after presentation of this grid. | Cypriot syllabary � � TA _______ Indo-European e.g. Latvian DAL- “divide, fork, separate” | Linear B � �(01) DA _______ modern sign Wikipedia | Phaistos Disk � � DA "divide, fork" _______ modern sign Wikimedia | Axe of Arkalochori � � DA "divide, division, fork" _______ | No Elamite sign yet _______ Egyptian Budge has TESH for “divide” Luvian t TA %% TU5 | Sumerian DIM12 “separate” Egyptian T “loaf” DI “half bread” “loaf (part)” |
