References - Part 08

References:

http://rosetta-stone.etf.ukim.edu.mk/

Part 9 – Wiring for Sound II

As mentioned previously, once a number of patterns had been isolated from the center text and identified as names, titles, etc, by making references to the other two texts on the Rosetta stone, Boshevski and Tentov began to look for sounds. This was by no means an easy task and it took much iteration before patterns began to emerge. Boshevski and Tentov remained optimistic and stuck to their assumption that this was the language of the Ancient Macedonians with origins in the Balkans and began to look at the Macedonian language as a reference. Keeping in mind that the modern Macedonian language, at least the Pelagonian dialects, may have retained some ancient pronunciation characteristics, they began to look for equivalent words in Macedonian. All in all at the time of the publication http://rosetta-stone.etf.ukim.edu.mk/ , 167 patterns were identified and cataloged and added to the appendix of the document.

From the various names they identified in the Koine or so-called Greek text they identified equivalent names in Macedonian and began to document the symbols and their sounds. To give you an idea of how this was done here is a simple example. In the Koine or so-called Greek text the following expression was used to refer to the Ptolemy; ΠΤΟΛ Ε ΜΑΙΟΥ which today is written as ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ. The name can actually be interpreted to mean “ΠΤΟΛ” meaning “town”, “Ε” a preposition meaning “of” “ΜΑΙΟΥ” meaning “the goddess of the earth”. In other words “ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ” in the Koine text translates to “town of the goddess of the earth”. In the center text reading from right to left this was represented with four groupings of symbols (see 4.3 “The Family Name of the Emperor (Pharaoh)” http://rosetta-stone.etf.ukim.edu.mk/ ) which in contemporary Macedonian were translated to “naitseneto naisemeistvo od grad na karpa izgradeniot” where “nai” means “the most”, “tseneto” means “respected”, “semeistvo” means “family”, “od” means “from”, “grad” means “city” or “town”, “na” means “on” or “at”, “karpa” means “rock” or “cliff” and “izgradeniot” means “built” from the word “izgradba” meaning “construction” or “building”. In Macedonian in this context, the words “nai” or “the most” can also mean “highest”, “honourable”, etc. So in English, the equivalent symbols from the

center text are taken to literally mean “the most respected honourable family from the town built on a cliff” or “the most respected honourable family from the town built on a rock”. This was done for every name, title, god, relation, etc, isolated and identified.

As they analyzed the Macedonian contemporary meaning for each of the words Boshevski and Tentov identified with the groupings of symbols, they began to look for archaic equivalents in the Macedonian dialects and thus began to add sound to each symbol.

One of the more prolific patterns found in the text were symbols with dashes on top. While the symbol retained its original meaning, the dash, as mentioned earlier, served as an interconnection or ligature. This was identified to be the preposition “na” in Macedonian which is equivalent to “on” or “at” in English.

As the symbol groupings were isolated and their meanings identified by referencing the other two texts, Macedonian words were assigned to them. Equivalent archaic Macedonian words were then identified and re-assigned to each symbol grouping where possible. The symbol groupings were then disassembled to single symbols and sound was added to each symbol from the syllabic breakdown of the archaic Macedonian word.