A number of people have suggested that the VMS might be in some Chinese language.
I think it is unlikely that this is so, but I am still curious to know what people might think.
The manuscript was written by at least three people, possibly five. And who were they writing for? For themselves, or for other Chinese? Could there really have been that many of them in the whole of Europe, in the time of the manuscript, when trade routes were not that well established, to justify writing in that language? But also why invent a new alphabet when they could have just written in the Chinese script which hardly any European would have been able to read?
There is also a problem with any language that uses tones for meaning, as highlighted nicely in
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I think it is unlikely that this is so, but I am still curious to know what people might think.
The manuscript was written by at least three people, possibly five. And who were they writing for? For themselves, or for other Chinese? Could there really have been that many of them in the whole of Europe, in the time of the manuscript, when trade routes were not that well established, to justify writing in that language? But also why invent a new alphabet when they could have just written in the Chinese script which hardly any European would have been able to read?
There is also a problem with any language that uses tones for meaning, as highlighted nicely in
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