VMs: VMS - Numbers?

["Larry Roux" <lroux@xxxxxxx>]

I was following my line on the manuscript being in a Turkish dialect, and found something interesting....

The numbers are:

1 bir
2 iki
3 uc
4 dort
5 bas
6 alty
7 yedi
8 sekiz
9 dokuz
10 on

Ever since Robert identified that certain glyphs are  numbers I thought that the characters might be identified by the number "name" (ie o for one, t for two, r for three, f for four, etc). Once I had the above list I plugged the letter scheme I came up with into Robert's list of numbers...and some of them seem to make sense.

Robert: We may want to review some of your numbers based on this.  I have put in some of the EVA characters, along with the sound the letter translates as based on my interpretation.  #1 and #9 end up the same between yours and mine:

eva  # name - sound
(o)  1 bir - b
(e)  2 iki - k
( )  3 uc - u?
(l)  4 dort - r
(k)  5 bas - ? (I thought this was the "ir" sound)
(d)  6 alty - a,al
( )  7 yedi - y or ee?
( )  8 sekiz - ?
(ch) 9 dokuz - d
(n) 10 on - n

Robert - this would make the date on f68r3: dekbr 1514 (december)  Check out Starry night for late December 1514 (ie the 27th).  The Moon and Jupiter both appear correctly, and it seems to fit 68r3 and 68r2.  

I have some more checking to do, and may blow my own theory out the window, but let me know what you think. 


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Larry Roux
Syracuse University
lroux@xxxxxxx
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