10-09-2016, 07:15 PM
I agree that the "40" could be something like latin -que but then stuck to the beginning of the second word.
From my own experience, I believe I have some insights into the labels in the small plants section. Insights meaning a fairly good idea for two or three gallows and a handful of other "single" glyphs. I think there is more going on in combinations of glyphs than simple digraphs, but I won't go into detail here to not confuse the thread further.
When I apply my understanding of those labels to a block of text, though, it doesn't work very well. Hence I would definitely not be surprised if very different kinds of information or indeed different languages are represented.
The "different languages" hypothesis might explain the "why" of the script actually. Perhaps someone did not want to bother with all kinds of different scripts (Greek, Latin, Hebrew ??) and came up with some way to write down the sounds of these various languages. The approach was then clearly not to assign a glyph to each different sound, but on the contrary simplify the whole thing and work with sound approximations. This is very close to what I believe at the moment.
From my own experience, I believe I have some insights into the labels in the small plants section. Insights meaning a fairly good idea for two or three gallows and a handful of other "single" glyphs. I think there is more going on in combinations of glyphs than simple digraphs, but I won't go into detail here to not confuse the thread further.
When I apply my understanding of those labels to a block of text, though, it doesn't work very well. Hence I would definitely not be surprised if very different kinds of information or indeed different languages are represented.
The "different languages" hypothesis might explain the "why" of the script actually. Perhaps someone did not want to bother with all kinds of different scripts (Greek, Latin, Hebrew ??) and came up with some way to write down the sounds of these various languages. The approach was then clearly not to assign a glyph to each different sound, but on the contrary simplify the whole thing and work with sound approximations. This is very close to what I believe at the moment.