Re: VMs: Burmese

[fion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Not to fuel this up but here is another possible readings for 
one of the words from f116v :

amchi=medic in Tibetan; also traditional Tibetan medicine deals
primarly with herbals, astrology and astronomy.  

... if it wasn't posted before.

  
> 	They don't have Burmese fonts here yet.  Here are some:
> 
> http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/burma.html
> 
> 	I always thought the Burmese script is interesting,
> because it was meant to be written on palm leaves with a
> *stylus*.  Therefore it's made up mostly of *circular*
> strokes so it won't split the leaves.   Runic scripts on the
> other hand are made up of straight strokes to be written on
> wood with a stylus or knife.
> 
> 	No obvious VMs relevance here.  We have another
> Sino-Tibetan language, presumably in a phonemic or syllabic
> script, presumably monosyllabic and Voynichese-like, that
> should be fairly easy to study.  The Voynich script is made
> up of i-strokes and c-strokes, while Burmese might contain
> CW and CCW circular strokes, spiral strokes, a few
> gallows-like straight strokes.

Regards,
Florin


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