Theory that the final section is a multilingual glossary

[rikforto]

Adjusted EVA: k = tl,     t = thl,    l = th,  y = -us / con-, m = ré / ch = er / sh = ér

If these are the right phonetic mappings, the underlying text has no K, L, M sounds at all, which seems very strange. I'm not sure I know a language with wouldn't have at least one of these three in some form.

Even if you get good coverage of the phoneme inventory of the Silk Road, the problem of the fairly rigid order characters is still outstanding. This conjecture solves the problem of locally similar words, but doesn't get us any closer to explaining why globally there are fairly dramatic limitations on where certain characters can appear in a "word", or why the apparent alphabet is so small.