I just asked the guy at Language Hat for help as well. He's super sharp. Aw Jeez, you think its the By-laws for the Salvation Army? naw, its gonna be a rare Burmese Nath Siddha text about Gorakh Nath's cousin who lived inside an underground beehive for 200 years.
> Someone from another list is sending it to a specialist list. Maybe > something will come from that. > > I keep having the feeling it's Onward, Christian Soldiers in Burmese... > - Alan > > > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Lanny Quarles wrote: > >> I don't think its Mon at this point. there aren't any closed loops >> on the rounded characters which about half the Mon char. have. >> >> I've checked the Mon character set, and while similiar, I can't find >> any truly matching chars. >> >> It almost appears to be a Burmese rendering of the Khmer or Tham script. >> It seems certain to be one of the Brahmi based scripts, but >> there are so many possibilities, I really don't know. >> >> On the Pali text website, the text they call Burmese doesnt >> have the Mon 'e loops' either, but it isnt quite like yours as well. >> there may be a Burmese Pali script or a Burmese version of Sanskrit >> whose character set is harder to find. >> >> With a syllabic language like this whose characters are more or less >> interchangeable, I could imagine there might be some odd syncretic >> hybrids that only an expert would be able to recognize. it may >> not be anything like that at all, but I just couldnt see any matches >> except for a few base characters. >> >> very puzzling. maybe i just didnt look at it long enough. >> I'll try printing these out maybe so i can turn them around >> in different directions easier. >> >> >> I'm not sure - it's definitely not Himilayan (or from that region) - >> Burmese with some sort of diacritical marks seems most likely, since >> Pali also used the script (or a variant, I think Mon) - Alan >> >> > > blog at http://nikuko.blogspot.com - for URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see > http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], - > general directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org > Trace at: http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk - search "Alan Sondheim" > http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sondheim >
