Sunday, March 06, 2011

Syllabic Grid of Ancient Scripts: KO Luvian Update to the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance MinAegCon by Andis Kaulins

Syllabic Grid of Ancient Scripts: KO Luvian Update to the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance MinAegCon by Andis Kaulins

(continued from KI 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 KO originally published at 55 - The Syllable KO : 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 KO plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

KO
“gnat, mosquito”
Phaistos Disk: Is this
Heteroptera: could be
 Cretan Soldier Beetle
Lygaeus saxatilis viz. the
German soldier beetle
Lygaeus equestris, or
Graphosoma creticum
"striped shield bug" or
Eurydema "shield bug"
or just "bug" generally
Indo-European e.g.
Latvian kukainis “bug”
Latvian kost "to bite"
Cypriot
Syllabary


KU
“gnat,
mosquito”

(Exchange
Cypriot KO and
KU values?)
LInear B



(70)

KO

“gnat,
mosquito”

Phaistos Disk




KO


but also
“insect.
No comparable Axe sign
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Thumb of photo by Chris
Schuster of Lygaeus
saxatilis . Note the
apparent "tail".

More photos at
No Elamite
sign yet.
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Thumb of
Lygaeus
equestris
at
Sumerian
KUIA
KuSu2
UH3
“insect, bug”

Luvian
KIx
abstract
bug ?