*** MN Armenian Ligature ﬓ (մ+ն), or ancient Syllable.

The Armenian alphabet has the following ligatures: և (ե+ւ), ﬔ (մ+ե), ﬕ (մ+ի), ﬗ (մ+խ), ﬖ (վ+ն) and ﬓ (մ+ն). A ligature is a (noun as in a link) A ligature are strong matches. Like a band, a binding bond, something that has a connection, knoted together a nexus, a rope, a yoke.

My focus is on ﬓ (մ+ն) which signifies not only permanance in the Armenian language, but also plays its part as a ligature in English. The number of words containing MN in them, in the English language are very telling of an idea that was lost a long time ago that obviously created the ligature MN in the first place. A word like Omni or Amen, recognised today to have its roots in PIE as -men and the /mn/ at seed signifies existence/presence/permanance in PIE, Aryan.

Here I jump straight to the idea of cyclic order for I posit that the ultimate origin of the ligature ﬓ (մ+ն) whether originally Armenian or IndoEuropean goes back to the a priory moment of its creation. 

In mathematics, a cyclic order is a way to arrange a set of objects in a circle. Unlike most structures in order theory, a cyclic order is not modeled as a binary relation, such as "a < b". One does not say that east is "more clockwise" than west. Instead, a cyclic order is defined as a ternary relation [a, b, c], meaning "after a, one reaches b, which can be before c". For example, [September, March, June]. A ternary relation is called a cyclic order if it is cyclic, asymmetric, transitive, and connected. Dropping the "connected" requirement results in a partial cyclic order. Synonyms of cyclical are recurrent, recurring, happening at regular intervals, dayly, weekly, monthly, yearly, circadian, diurnal, regular, repeated, repetitive, periodic, seasonal, circular. Consistently, constantly, eternally, evereverlastingly, evermore, for keeps, forevermore, in perpetuum, invariably, perpetually, regularly

The months are a cyclic order.

Logical truths are generally considered to be necessarily true. This is to say that they are such that no situation could arise in which they could fail to be true. The view that logical statements are necessarily true is sometimes treated as equivalent to saying that logical truths are true in all possible worlds. The terms and formulas of first-order logic are strings of symbols, where all the symbols phonemes together form the mora or alphabet of the language. As with all formal languages, the nature of the symbols themselves is outside the scope of formal logic; they are often regarded simply as letters and punctuation symbols. It is common to divide the symbols of any alphabet into logical symbols, which always have the same meaning, and or non-logical symbols, whose meaning varies by interpretation. For example, the logical symbol  that always represents "and" is never interpreted as "or", they are often regarded simply as letters and punctuation symbols. The concept of truth is often debated and has been explored by philosophers for centuries. Some philosophical perspectives suggest that truth may transcend language and cannot be fully captured in words, while others argue that truth can be expressed through language and communication. Ultimately, the nature of truth and its relationship to language is a complex and multifaceted topic that continues to be explored by scholars and thinkers.

The origin of speech/language is a topic that has faced consistent problems in explaining how human ideas evolved. Language is a fundamental aspect of human communication and has played and plays a vital role in the everyday lives of humans. It allows them to convey thoughts, emotions, and ideas, and provids the ability to connect with others and shape the collective reality. In speech, a segment is any one of the discrete units that occur in a sequence of sounds, which can be broken down into phonemes, syllables or words in spoken language through a process called speech segmentation. Crucial elements of the sound stream of a message are thus alphabetically 'captured' by a linear sequence of marks that can be "sounded out" to recapture the message by means of its sounds. The entire sound stream is not captured, but enough of it is to provide a prompt for lexical recognition. Could it be that at origin as in mathematics, phonology followed a cyclic order and arranged symantics as sets of objects in a circle. There are all kinds of writing systems which are based on written representation of other linguistic units such as syllables, words, or some mix of these.) The Roman alphabet, being designed for a language with a very different phonological system, was never perfectly adapted for writing English even when first used to represent Anglo-Saxon. 

Ligatures: The first monks writing English using Roman letters soon added new characters to handle the extra sounds. For example, the front low vowel /æ/ of Anglo-Saxon was represented by a ligature of a and e, forming a single written character called ash. It is not easy for writers to remember a single orthographic representation, called a spelling, for a word. This is what is required for standardization, so unless there is a perfect one-to-one correspondence between phonemes and graphemes, which is an ideal rarely reached with alphabetic systems. As a result some who try to learn to read alphabetic writing never quite master it because they can't separate the speech string into individual segments, which are clusters of vocal gestures in consonants and vowels. 

Syllables are a more natural unit for humans to perceive and hence code (write) and decode (read) by means of marks on a page as in the case of cuniform. A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). Syllables are  considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic metre and its stress patterns. Speech can usually be divided up into a whole number of syllables: for example, the word ignite is made of two syllables: ig and ni-te.

Syllabic writing began several hundred years before the first letters. The earliest recorded syllables are on tablets written around 2800 BC in the Sumerian city of Ur. This shift from pictograms to syllables has been called "the most important advance in the history of writing". 

Orthography is the conventional spelling system designed for a language, a speech.
In Sanskrit metrics have a deep history of taking into account moraic weight. Mora in Sanskrit is expressed as the mātrā. For example, the short vowel a (pronounced like a schwa) is assigned a value of one mātrā, the long vowel ā is assigned a value of two mātrās, and the compound vowel (diphthong) ai (which has either two simple short vowels, a+i, or one long and one short vowel, ā+i) is assigned a value of two mātrās.

A ligature in grammar, is a morpheme that links two elements called phonems, which are the smallest unit of a word  that provides a specific meaning. In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem. In linguistics, a word stem is a part of a word responsible for its lexical meaning. 

Compounding, composition or nominal composition is the process of word formation that creates compound lexemes. Compounding occurs when two or more words or signs are joined to make a longer word or sign with meaning. The compound formation process is productive, so it is not possible to list all Sanskrit compounds in a dictionary. Compounds of two or three words are more frequent. Sandhi in Sanskrit "joining" linking as in ligature, is a cover term for a wide variety of sound changes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries. Examples include fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of one sound depending on nearby sounds or the grammatical function of the adjacent words. Sandhi belongs to morphophonology. Linking R and intrusive R are sandhi phenomena where the rhotic consonant is pronounced as sound /r/ between two consecutive vowel with the purpose of avoiding a hiatus. 

In phonology, an interfix or more commonly linking element is a part of a word that is placed between two morphemes (such as two roots or a root and a suffix) and lacks a semantic meaning.

The earliest known script Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian hieratic both include many cases of character combinations that gradually evolve from ligatures into separately recognizable characters. Other notable ligatures, such as the Brahmic abugidas and the Germanic bind rune, figure prominently throughout ancient manuscripts. These new glyphs emerge alongside the proliferation of writing with a stylus, whether on paper or clay. and often for a practical reason like faster handwriting but originally I posit they originated during the syllabic period like the character Æ (lower case æ; in ancient times named æsc) when used in the Danish, Norwegian, or Icelandic languages, as well as in the related Old English language, is not a typographic ligature. It is a distinct letter—a vowel—and when alphabetised, is given a different place in the alphabetic order.
A syllabic consonant or vocalic consonant is a consonant that forms a syllable on its own, like the m, n and l in some pronunciations of the English words rhythm, Sanskrit ऋ ṛ [r̩], ऌ ḷ [l̩] are syllabic consonants, allophones of consonantal r and l. This continues the reconstructed situation of Proto-Indo-European, where both liquids and nasals had syllabic allophones, r̩, l̩, m̩, n̩.

In English the sound <mn> appears in six words and in all six words the <mn> is in the same place. Is it at the end of the words, at the end in all six words which come from Latin and <mn> in the Latin source words are in the middle. There is also a strong tendency in English to let the English spelling reflect the foreign origin of the word. This is especially true of words from Latin and Greek. So the <mn> in words like column and autumn helps identify them as Latin words, just as, say, the <rh> and the <y> in rhythm help identify it as Greek.

English Word	Latin Source
autumn	autumnus
column	columna
condemn	condemnare
damn	damnare
hymn	hymnus
solemn	solemnis

In the Latin where <mn> was in the middle, it was easy to pronounce the [n], but in English the <mn> is at the end of the word, where it is hard to pronounce and lost in pronunciation. So English just leave out the [n] and pronounce the <mn> as [m].

However when suffixes are added to these six words in English and the <mn> is in the middle as it is in Latin, it is pronounce in full, both the <m> and the <n>, so the <mn> is pronounced [mn]. The reason that adding a suffix to stems that end <mn> can change the pronunciation from [m] to [mn] is that adding the suffix creates a syllable boundary between the <m> and <n>. When a vowel follows two consonants, the tendency in English is for the first vowel to stay in the same syllable as the preceding vowel while the second vowel joins the syllable of the succeeding vowel. Thus, hymn is [him] with [m] = <mn>, but hymnal is [him⋅nəl], with [m] = <m> and [n] =<n>

Words With Free Stem + Suffix

Autumnal[mn]autumn + alcolumnist[mn]column + istcondemnation[mn]condemn + ationdamnable[mn]damn + ablehymnal[mn]hymn+alsolemnity[mn]solemn + ity
According to Manfred Krebernik, the name Amna, attested as a synonym of Utu in the god list An = Anum and used to refer to the sun god in an inscription of Nabonidus, might be either connected to the toponym Sippar-Amnanum or to a root attested in Northwest Semitic languages, '-m-n, which can be translated as "to be reliable" or "to be firm."

Armenian has a simple compounding rule, it appears at root to be a proto father language, a syllabic based language from around 2500 BCE superimposed on a proto mother tongue, by a partriarchal fighter/farmer, aryan group with a 'freedom or death' mentality, The proto mother language, had probably evolved locally, organically, from around 4500BCE with the advent of organised communal labor of - Animal Husbandry, craftswomen and craftsmen. This shift from pictographs to syllabic the origin of which has been dated 2800BCE, is called the most important advance in the history of language. These were nobel men and women who were part and parcel of society rejected the Sumerian centalization model, and with the technological advances of the previous 3000 years set up their own indipendent governing structures and language over the previously existing proto mother language in the highlands of what became known the Armenian Plateau.