(20-02-2026, 06:21 PM)rikforto wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.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.
Nor is it intended to, by the way.
My intention is to call focus to the potential that in this specific area of the manuscript there may be sets of correlated words, and that those words could be the various names for an object.
Something that potentially suggests this is opchedaiin (operedaiin) from subsection 5, which matches the first word of subsection 3: pchedaiin (peredaiin). Interestingly, in subsection 3 there is otedal (othledath) which is quite similar to the first word of subsection 5: Polkeedal (Pothtleedath). Such crossovers make sense in a glossary (maybe even expected in a multilingual glossary), if certain terms are exchangeable between dialects/languages.
I also deliberately coloured some text in red, namely "raraiin, aiin, raiin, dar raiin". They don't appear at the exact same place in each line, but always after a set of repeated words.
I've been considering that if "aiin" is really "am", raraiin may be "raram", which could be an indication of rarity. It's a stretch. However, it could make sense if words with "raiin" represent some kind of qualifying clause within a sentence though.