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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on May 8, 2012 10:55:35 GMT 3
That sounds like what the Turkish madman Kazım Mirşan and his followers attempt - reading the Orkhon inscriptions (alongside many Sumerian, Egyptian, Etruscan, Phyrgian and Germanic texts) in a completely different and nonscientific ways. Such attempts should be disregarded at all.
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Post by massaget on May 8, 2012 13:51:26 GMT 3
There is also a szekler variant, as the letters matches with the szekler script. Its : ReTeGeT aKaRSZ aKNaS wich means : you want a new layer, miner
doesnt seems too serious.
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Post by Ardavarz on May 9, 2012 1:17:00 GMT 3
There is also a szekler variant, as the letters matches with the szekler script. Its : ReTeGeT aKaRSZ aKNaS wich means : you want a new layer, miner doesnt seems too serious. Yes. Moreover - it could be so if read left to right, while the traditional direction of the Szekler script was right to left like the Orhonic runes. I am not sure which way should be read the Issyk inscription, but with the upper line being shorter and aligned to the right with the lower one, right to left seems more probable.
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on May 9, 2012 10:23:36 GMT 3
This case reminds me of the dispute over the reading of some of the inscriptions on the vessels of Nagyszentmiklós treasure. Németh Gyula and Franz Altheim suggested two different Old Turkic readings but these two are totally different from each other. And since both scholars were great names in the field, it makes it even harder for us to whom we should believe
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