(continued from DE 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 DI originally published at 44 - The Syllable DI : 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 DI plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
DI DEMO “to build” DOMA "palace, hall, house" Compare Sumerian EDU “build” and DIMUŠ “reed shelter” | Cypriot Syllabary For the Cypriot sign DI see TI The Cypriot Syllabary allegedly did not distinguish T, D and TH syllables. | Linear B � �(07) DI "palace, hall" | Phaistos Disk no similar sign unless one saw this sign as similar: � � but see the KA syllabic value assigned to that sign | No comparable Axe sign _______ Clip of a photo at the Wikimedia Commons Egyptian AAUT | Elamite DI 2 columns? Luvian b TI2 palace | Sumerian EDU “house builder” DURU7 “house” Egyptian XA |
