10-11-2025, 07:19 AM
(10-11-2025, 12:11 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.My theory (quite "non-consensus", be warned) is that the text is not encrypted at all. It just some East Asian language in an ad-hoc phonetic script devised by the Author. The contents would be transcriptions of the most important (according to the locals) medical and astrological books from that place; if not Chinese, apparently reflecting Chinese influence.
Interesting theory – but that would make translation nearly impossible. At that time, in china a kind of official language was just beginning to develop, and otherwise there were hundreds of dialects and languages in the region.
Foreign (unknown) languages have always been a good form of encryption, especially when they are transcribed phonetically. Who knows today how they were really pronounced back then?
Since I am convinced that you have in-depth information and background knowledge on this, are there any sources or threads here? If I am convinced, I can finally give up my laborious work...
