Vocabuary Part 5

Question 1

Aksara (Orthographic Syllables) vs. Phonological Syllables

Answer 1

(in Devanagari) Aksara: An orthographic Syllable in Sanskrit, consists of each individual vowel sign or consonant sign + diacritic. Is often a Phonological Syllable, except when there are consonant clusters, in which case the rule of creating aksaras by maximizing onsets violates phonotactic constraints. Example: /sek.rId/ vs. for ‘sacred’
Phonological Syllable: syllables in the spoken word. Sometimes line up with Aksaras or orthographic syllables.
Example: /sek.rId/ vs. for ‘sacred’

Question 2

Landa’s Alphabet

Answer 2

A portion of a sixteenth century NEW document written by Bishop Diego de Landa giving information about the Maya writing system. Helpful in decipherment, although it was alphabetic, while the Maya script was a mix of morphographic and phonetic symbols

Question 3

Full Figure Glyph Variant (Maya)

Answer 3

A large allograph, usually occupying two writing spaces, including an entire human figure.

Question 4

Head Glyph Variant (Maya)

Answer 4

an allograph, particularly of a numeral, which incorporates a human head into some part of the normal variant. tend to be used in a more prominent position

Question 5

Harmonic Moraic Vowel Pattern:

Answer 5

If the same vowel is in the second syllable of a two syllable word, then the final vowel will be dropped (Maya Moraic Glyphs)

Question 6

Aharmonic Moraic Vowel Pattern:

Answer 6

If the same vowel in the second syllable of a two syllable glyph is a different vowel then the vowel quality of the first vowel is altered, often to be geminate. (Maya Moraic Glyphs)

Question 7

Epi-Olmec Script

Answer 7

logophonetic mesoamerican script read top to bottom. Discovered in the 1980s on a inscribed slab

Question 8

Quipu

Answer 8

mesoamerican system of primarily numbers expressed by knots on ropes. Some logographic and phonographic symbols are attested, although they rely on non-quipu symbols and do not make Quipu a full writing system.

Question 9

Futhark Scripts

Answer 9

The runic alphabet (European) from proto sinaitic and greek. Was used to write germanic and proto germanic languages.

Question 10

Futhorc Scripts

Answer 10

The 33 letter Anglo-Saxon variant of the Futhark Runic Script. Modified to accommodate sound changes taking place in Old English.