(continued from MU 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 NA originally published at 32 - The Syllable NA : 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 NA plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
NA Thumb of lake dwellings or "huts" from Val Camonica, Italy online in an image at These dwellings or "huts" are found inscribed at Naquane National Park on Rock 35 near Capo di Ponte. The Egyptian term NWT and Greek ναιετάω “dwell, inhabit” may find explanation in Indo- European e.g. Latvian neiet, i.e. NE-IET “not go”, i.e. the idea of home as a place to stay as opposed to being on the road viz. in the act of “going”. “Dwelling” is “not going”. | Cypriot syllabary � � NA The vertical line is a holder for the main meaning of multi-levels or multi-supports. __________ in Europe (Switzerland) | Linear B � �(06) NA "dwell, inhabit" side view. __________ The Egyptian NWT “town, settlement” could the same term as Greek "dwell, inhabit. Image thumb from the Lake Germany. | Phaistos Disk � � NA "dwell, inhabit" The Phaistos Disk sign is similar in design to ancient lake dwellings but also to round Sumerian reed houses. Sumerian script had a special “pillared” sign for elevated buildings. (see the next columns right). | No comparable Axe sign __________ found the image below of a Sumerian reed house As writes, also "the earliest inhabitants of Egypt lived in [papyrus] huts....” Ancient connections? writes: "Kato Zakro ... was ... the main port for dealing with Egypt, Syria, Gaza in Palestine and Cyprus. ... [trading] items from both Syria and Egypt. Later they extended to Asia Minor (Turkey), Rhodes and other Aegean islands." | Elamite NA Floor of a dwelling with poles top view ________ Luvian ) or Ä NA2 n NA, NI2 Sumerian "raised, elevated" | Sumerian UNU Egyptian NWT The city symbol on Pharaonic hieroglyphs. The Egyptian hieroglyph NWT may be the same word as Greek “dwell, inhabit” |
