(continued from LU 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 TA originally published at 37 - The Syllable TA : 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 TA plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
TA "arrow". The Wikipedia writes: aerodynamic with materials such as feathers, each peice ... referred to as a fletch." Ancient fletchings are primitive compared to modern ones and so drawn as signs. | Cypriot syllabary The Cypriot Syllabary is said to have only one sign for T and D syllables but this one better fits the syllable DA than TA. Take a look at the syllable DA on this grid. | Linear B (59) TA Arrows sticking in a target. | Phaistos Disk � � TA "arrow" "to shoot an arrow" | No comparable Axe sign __________ Greek archer | Elamite TA arrows Luvian TU3 fletching | Sumerian TI "arrow" Egyptian SN see Latvian DZIN- "propel" |
