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Hello there, this is my first enquiry
here.
A little whole ago I read about
the very intriguing suggestion that the Voynich script may have some connection
to the "pinyin" system of romanisation of Chinese developed by Matteo Ricci. I
forget where I saw this hint, perhaps Jorge Stolfi's site?
Anyway, I have looked into it a
little but have yet to find any examples of what Ricci's romanisation system
looked like. All I have come up with is this reference, by a Dr
Kim:
"A Late Ming Mandarin Phonetics
as reflected in the Pinyin Romanization system of Matteo Ricci and Nicolas
Trigault" (YUYAN YANJIU, 1994).
I'm sure this is in Chinese and I plan to track it down
at the British Library (well at least in theory I do). I emailed the author, but
he hasn't replied.
What I was wondering is whether there has been any
further ideas on this, or whether anyone has a sample of the actual script that
was developed by Ricci and Trigault.
Steve
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