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GD32

The long 'neck' may be straight - as in Ab2-57, Ab5-24 and Ab7-16:

     

Or it may have a 'knee', Aa1-5 and Ab2-8:

     

It may also be bent in the opposite direction, e.g. Ab6-52, Aa5-18, Ab7-39:

     

As seen in Ab6-52 the 'neck' may be slightly bent close to the 'head'. Another example is found in Ab8-56:

There are two 'heads' (with slightly different kinds of 'beaks') in Ab4-48:

In combinations with other GD:s the characteristic long 'neck' is clearly visible; examples are Aa1-11, Aa1-22, Aa1-46 and Ab6-42:

        

Aa1-25 is a special case because it has GD32 in an unusual form, with cut off 'tail' and signs of being combined with another glyph type at the 'head' end:

The long 'neck' and open 'mouth' of GD32 is included in many glyphs which I for practical reasons have not classified as belonging to GD32, e.g. Aa1-1 (GD42):

Indeed, most glyphs belonging to GD42 are characterized by this type of 'neck' and open 'mouth'. Many other glyph types, e.g. GD52 (exemplified by Ab7-34), also exhibits this 'neck' and open 'mouth':

Although in GD52 mostly the long neck is absent, as in Aa1-67:

But possibly the straight long back here illustrates the long 'neck' of GD32?

 

In GD15 many glyphs too exhibit the characteristics of GD32 (without that influencing me to include such glyphs also under GD32), e.g. Aa7-71:

Enough said about that. The principle is clear - when it is reasonable to find a neck and head with open mouth located in their right places, then I do not also classify the glyphs under GD32. Only when they appear in peculiar places do I classify them as GD32.

Hyperlinks lead to GD42, GD79 and GD84, because these glyph types often have features resembling GD32, e.g. Aa5-75, Aa7-3 respectively Aa5-77:

     

 

Aruku Kurenga (B)

Extremely long straight necks appear in Ba4-15, Ba4-22 and Ba8-33:

     

The 'head' may be turned backwards, e.g. Bb4-7--8:

Bb9-4 and Bb8-3 exemplify how the 'body' may have 'knee' respectively the form of a smooth curve:

     

In Bb11-30 the glyph type is exhibited twice in double opposition:

A few marginal 'bird' cases are Ba8-43, Ba9-8 and Bb2-24:

     

Another, rather unique and questionable case, is Bb7-41:

 

Mamari (C)

Cb13-18 obviously belongs to GD32, while Cb10-22 is quite far away from the usual glyphs:

  

 I have included Cb1-5 in order to focus attention on a possible relation with GD43 glyphs:

 

But GD43 glyphs as a rule shall have no 'open mouths'. Similarly, I have included Ca5-3 to draw attention to GD49 glyphs:

We recognize the 'body form' with 'knee' (or 'elbow') pointing left, but there is no 'open mouth' in the GD49 glyphs either.

 

Échancrée (D)

Da7-105 is the only example of GD32:

 

Keiti (E)

Eb8-25 shows that Bb11-30 is not unique in having 'opposed twins':

 

The rest of the texts

The texts above have been used as a kind of 'test ground' to see if the definitions could be used.

For the rest of the texts the same principles have been used, although less stringently. The experiences gained have been relied upon rather than what is written above about what characterizes the glyph type.

There may be a few extra glyph added, which would not have been so with a strict application of the written definitions. On the other hand there has been no attempt to ignore glyphs which according to the written definitions ought to belong to the glyph type.