VMs: Re: speculating on silkroad

[mesinik@xxxxxx]

Quoting Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> You could argue that Voynichese has what I called here "stroke
> harmony" and that, since Mongolian has vowel and consonant harmony,
> then... but no, the only languages that fit are the monosyllabic
> languages of the Far East: Chinese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, as Jorge
> Stolfi has found out. Mind you, there are other such languages in
> the world.

there could still exist some living Tangut dialects in XVth ciecle,
despite losing an all-out war with Mongols.

there was probably many Chinese people in Central Asia, too.
In times of Tang par example, the map of China looked like this:
http://homepages.stmartin.edu/Fac_Staff/rlangill/HIS%20217%20maps/Tang%20dynasty%20map.JPG
(it's just streched out along the silkroad...
.. is the VMS the last one of silkroad wonders?)

just for fun, some pics:
http://www.hfc-hersfeld.de/hfc/marken/scans/660.jpg
http://www.hfc-hersfeld.de/hfc/marken/scans/851.jpg
http://www.hfc-hersfeld.de/hfc/marken/scans/664.jpg
http://www.hfc-hersfeld.de/hfc/marken/scans/665.jpg
http://www.hfc-hersfeld.de/hfc/marken/scans/663.jpg
http://www.hfc-hersfeld.de/hfc/marken/scans/661.jpg
http://www.hfc-hersfeld.de/hfc/marken/scans/658.jpg
Modern art?
Nops. Mural paintings from Mogao, Dunhuang.
Tang or earlier.

btw, in Bibliothèque nationale de France 
there are drawings (Ink, on paper) of
Sogdian (Central Asian) female deities
(not Buddhist, nor Islamic afaik, found
in these Mogao caves), late Tang.
These could be something like granmas for our VMS-damsels.



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