(continued from RI 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 RU originally published at 20 - The Syllable RU : 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 RU plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
RU The vertical line in Linear B is a "holder" for two arms reaching out. A sign like this was easier to draw than the hand as on the Phaistos Disk and the Axe of Arkalochori. That the Cypriot syllabary likely shows two arms is seen from the Cypriot sign SU as arm/line (extension). See Cypriot SU: � � | Cypriot syllabary � � RU | Linear B � � (26) RU "(arms) reach out" | Phaistos Disk � � RU "hand" “fist” Archaic Indo European once had one word only for both arm and hand e.g. Latvian roka | The Axe of Arkalochori � � RU The standard sign is reproduced from an apparently faulty copy of the Axe. Redrawn from an original photo, it is correctly "hand": | No Elamite sign yet Cheryl B. at hand drawings Luwian RU 6 hand+fingers | Sumerian RU give by hand Egyptian Hieroglyphs RDJ |
