(continued from RU 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 SA originally published at 22 - The Syllable SA : 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 SA plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
SA In Linear B agricultural texts: flax (linen) called flaxen by its color ξανθός "yellow", representing perhaps also “blossoms” συνεξανθέω. Signs can stand for a full word or extended syllable as here e.g. SAN, and thus Linear B is thus rightly "a-le-ka-san-da-ra", i.e. Alexandra. | Cypriot syllabary: � � SA Luvian variants SA SAx SU | Linear B (31) SA "yellow flax" or yellow saffron Persian (za'ferân) | Phaistos Disk The word-closing Phaistos Disk sign � � is „SS“ but do read the 5th column. | No comparable Axe sign By dictionary pages, 48% of words in Greek beginning with S are SU, only 3% SA. By compasion, in an archaic Indo-European language such as Latvian these stats are reversed, as SA is 45% and SU 3%, showing the vowel shift. The syllable SA is not as important as SU in Ancient Greek. | Elamite SA A flower Luvian S SA, SI | Sumerian eSSa2 “a plant” Luvian "ss" s SA |
