Reference of spices in various asiatic languages

[undekagon]

I am not sure if this really interesting side 

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will help to identify the plants and there voynich names. It is full of interestin writing systems. In my eyes that alone is magic and perhaps we find there a hint for voynichese. Who knows.


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[-JKP-]

...It is full of interestin writing systems. In my eyes that alone is magic and perhaps we find there a hint for voynichese. Who knows.

I've already made charts of these writing systems documenting which ones are similar to those in Voynichese. My blog on the Indic numerals was an introduction.

I know the symbols well enough to be able to write them without consulting a reference, and which syllables they stand for (although my knowledge is specific to the 13th to 15th centuries, not the later scripts). I can puzzle out basic nouns, as long as it's not written with a lot of ligatures (like medieval Latin, the Indic languages have many ligatures).

I mention this only so we don't get a lot of duplication of effort.


Yes it is very interesting. I didn't find as many commonalities as there are between Latin medieval abbreviated scripts and Voynichese, but both Latin and Sanscrit/Nagari/Gujarati have Indo-European roots, so there are a few things of interest in the older scripts.

[Koen G]

I've made extensive use of this site back in the day when I believed I could understand some small-plant labels. Its information on spice name etymology is absolutely essential.