Re: VMs: Rohonczi Codex

[Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Nick Pelling wrote:
> All the same, I don't believe the crypto component of its structure is
> likely to be as multi-layered as that within the VMs: but (from the RC's
> known Hungarian provenance), a strong candidate for its underlying language
> is perhaps more likely to be (abbreviated) Hungarian. Having learnt a
> little Hungarian a long time ago, that fills me with something not
> dissimilar to dread. :-o

Another strong candidate, however, would be Latin.  The Hungarian
government used Latin a lot at various periods, I think, and fairly late.

However, the Hungarian Plain is such a melting pot area that a mysterious
document from Hungary could be almost anything at all!  "Old European,"
Celtic, Italic, Dacian, or other poorly known Southern European
Indo-European group, Germanic, Slavic, Indo-Aryan, Tokharian, Altaic,
Uralic, Semitic, any of the three or four different language families from
the Caucasus.  You could make a case for Hittite, Ket, Burushaski, or
Sino-Tibetan with very little imagination.

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