Midwifery miscellanea, mayhap Maltese

[DorotheeM]

The Maltese connection seems much weaker.
On the other hand would you people really recognize anything Maltese like some Maltese art? Personally I would only recognize this 


I would wait for analysis of the text by DorotheeM. If I understand correctly, some is going to appear in the future.

Thank you for the patience.

Again, Malta is just a starting point and I have chosen it for the sake of other assumptions, like: the book is (at least mostly) about midwifery. What on earth could have happened to make such an effort and why could they have you used such an uncommon way to write it down? Thus my yet totally unproven background story. 

But, correct me if I'm wrong, a semitic background has already been proposed by others. I'm trying to verify this in a first step. This is why I am not only collecting oodles of other parallel corpora, but a bunch of potential semitic corpora, like eg. siculo-arabian, as near to the expected time slot as possible. 

To make it crystal clear: There is no overall hard evidence yet the VMS has something to do with Maltese, just very few minor evidences. I hope to find some more. 

Furthermore, a lot of theories are based on well-known and well-documented languages, like Mediaval or Early New High German. Fair enough, but it has been analyzed quite a lot before, maybe, because reconstructing and learning an exotic language as a prerequisite is not what most people would do. 

I wanted to step into regions of less focus so far, because one might argue for them as well and I assume it's time to do. This is why I judge Jorge_Stolfis "China theory" as far-fetched, but honesly said at least as brave. On the other hand, if one really wants to make progess here, it's a painful load of work to step into Jurchen, Mandchu or, lets say, Evenki. Btw: there is no need to focus on east languages like Japanese or Korean as intermediates, just think of the Timurid Empire! (And have fun with checking out Chagatai). 


Cheers, 

Doro