(continued from DU Luvian Update) -- there is no update at this time for the DO syllable
This posting updates the series started here by adding Luvian (also spelled Luwian, formerly Hieroglyphic Hittite) to the syllabic grid for the syllable KA originally published at 52 - The Syllable KA : 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 KA plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
KA viz. XA (German CH) These signs mark a “crossroads” location such as a town, village, city, or other settlement Variants of this ancient sign for ”an X marks the spot” � � are found as far away as Egypt and China. Sumerian KALAM will be cognate with Greek κεραμ-εοῦς “of earth” with KALAM = KERAM. A cognate term "ground (location)" | Cypriot syllabary � � KA The lower horizontal ine is the ground surface and the arrow represents the location. | Linear B � �(77) KA Represents a “ground” location such as a town, city, village, or crossroads Scholars read Linear B KA-KE as “copper” but consider XA(L)-KE | Phaistos Disk � � KA town, city, village or crossroads, also perhaps walled or pillared building, palace or fortification | No comparable Axe sign __________ Ancient China City symbol Egyptian The crossroads sign took its name from dwellings NTW See NA. | Elamite KA Luvian K KA HAR H HA KAR | Sumerian KALAM “Sumer, land, nation” KI “place” GAGAR “area” Egyptian XA |
