(continued from NU 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 LA originally published at 47 - The Syllable LA : 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 LA plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
LA Linear B had L-based syllables, contrary to the concept of current mainstream scholarship. λαός is "the people", Found also in Sumerian, an L-based term for “people, person” is widespread in Indo European languages. also liudī, ... Old Norse Old English lēode "people", Russian люди Bulgarian люде. Latvian palatalized L in λαβή “handle, grip” That is the Cypriot sign and Sumerian LUD. | Cypriot syllabary � � LA This sign was a lot of trouble. I expected it to be a person as in Linear B. But in comparing it to Cypriot MI it could only be a container on the ground. It represents a handle or grip λαβή and a small bowl. | Linear B Read in error as JE � �(46) LA “a person” Sumerian and Cypriot LUD “small bowl with handle” is homophonic with LUD “person”. This match astonished. | Phaistos Disk � � LA "person” The term is derived from the concept of “the people, folk, laymen, laity”. | Axe of Arkalochori � �and� � LA “a person” Luvian Some scholars allege that Luvian had no “E” which is false. See LE. l LÁ “a person” | Elamite LA Elamite has a frontal face view. Egyptian nDs “commoner” N instead of L, so e.g. palatalized Latvian „folk” | Sumerian LUD “small bowl” LU2 “person” Cuneiform � � |
