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I note that Rene Zandbergen has made a comment in another place with regard to Voynich theories - as follows.
1) One makes an assumption.
2) One finds an explanation for a detail that is consistent with this assumption.
3) One then concludes that the assumption must have been correct.
There is a great risk of circular reasoning in all this:
This is not my intention, although dealing with five centuries of human history in only a couple of paragraphs carries some risk.
Some background.
The phen speaking Rom gypsies who first appeared in Europe in the 11th century were thought to have been part of a larger migration who wandered for several centuries through what is now Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, and to the south of the Caspian sea.
On reaching northern Mesopotamia and the eastern boundary of the Byzantine Empire towards the end of the tenth and beginning of the eleventh century they split into three groups. The ben speaking Dom who took the southern route or stayed in the Middle East, and two phen speaking groups, the Lom, who went north and the Rom, who took the western route.
Source: Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire: A Contribution to the History of the Balkans by Elena Marushiakova, Veselin Popov. Oct 2016.
[i]“There is no record of any written (Gypsy) language(s), although there are several suggestions for Romani, including one based on Devanagari."[/i]
Source: Ian Hancock, Professor, Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas.
With respect to Ian Hancock, I would like to prove him wrong ...
I note that Rene Zandbergen has made a comment in another place with regard to Voynich theories - as follows.
1) One makes an assumption.
2) One finds an explanation for a detail that is consistent with this assumption.
3) One then concludes that the assumption must have been correct.
There is a great risk of circular reasoning in all this:
This is not my intention, although dealing with five centuries of human history in only a couple of paragraphs carries some risk.
Some background.
The phen speaking Rom gypsies who first appeared in Europe in the 11th century were thought to have been part of a larger migration who wandered for several centuries through what is now Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, and to the south of the Caspian sea.
On reaching northern Mesopotamia and the eastern boundary of the Byzantine Empire towards the end of the tenth and beginning of the eleventh century they split into three groups. The ben speaking Dom who took the southern route or stayed in the Middle East, and two phen speaking groups, the Lom, who went north and the Rom, who took the western route.
Source: Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire: A Contribution to the History of the Balkans by Elena Marushiakova, Veselin Popov. Oct 2016.
[i]“There is no record of any written (Gypsy) language(s), although there are several suggestions for Romani, including one based on Devanagari."[/i]
Source: Ian Hancock, Professor, Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas.
With respect to Ian Hancock, I would like to prove him wrong ...