Re: con-translation (was: Semitic/Celtic Ties)

In message <l03130300b31aba17fd48@[195.8.77.174]>, "Raymond A. Brown"
<raybrown@...> writes
>At 5:43 am +0000 13/3/99, John Fisher wrote:
>>> RE-A-NJA (the three symbols)
>>The three linear symbols should in fact be read
>>LO-A-NA
>>Note that Linear B and the other syllabaries of the area do not
>>distinguish between /l/ and /r/.
>
>Although Linear B does not make that distinction, the Cypriote syllabary,
>in fact, did distinguish the {la}, {le}, {li}, {lo}, {lu} series from the
>{ra}, {re}, {ri}, {ro}, {ru} series.
Oh!  Well, that just proves that these three glyphs descend from Linear
B, not the Cypriot syllabary.  Otherwise my transcription wouldn't make
sense.  QED. :-)

>Darn it! So speakers of proto-Elet-Anta were settled in the Lisithi plateau
>in the 3rd century BC.  Oh dear - I'll have to revise all my earlier
>theories :)
Nah, just tweak 'em a bit, you know, change the dates by a century here
or there...

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