"This is a language I'm not familiar with either . . . It's probably not a code but an unknown language . "
I replied so to Grevil . As someone who lived a long life in the past, I could speak all known 325 languages back then . Yet the one in this documents is unlike any of those 325 .
However . . . this doesn't appear to be a code . Similar words are getting repeated all over these documents .
That's a characteristic of a normal language . Words may also get repeated in a very low level code, but those demons would never use something so low leveled . Probably .
Well to me there's not much difference between an unknown language and a low level code . Since both can be deciphered with magic .
"For now, let's decipher it . "
I hang my hand over the documents . Grevil looked surprised when he saw that .
"Could it be, Code Decipherer magic . . . ? Can you use that with your mana?"
"Yea . The simple version that is . "
Grevil's surprise is likely caused by his perceptions of the proper powerful decipherer magic . I can't use that one with my mana indeed . But . . . If the target is not a code, but merely an unknown language, then a simpler magic can be used to decipher it .
"Well, let's give it a try . "
I cast the decipherer magic . It's far more complex than the magic usually deployed in battle . . But the me now can use this magic without problem .
"Now then, which one is it similar with . . . "
You don't simply fully comprehend a code just by casting this magic . It's a magic that compare and calculate the extracted syntax and common feature of a code with existing languages the user knows .
Since I know 325 languages, I've got a lot of data point to compare .
Then . . . It got a hit on a similar language .
" . . . A type of 『Sand Graph』 huh . "
『『Sand Graph』 you say . . . Isn't that the language used by sand demons? . . . I believe that didn't have a letter system though . 』 <TLN: If you're reading this novel at any other site than Sousetsuka . com you might be reading an unedited, uncorrected version of the novel . > Hearing my murmur, Grevil spoke to me through comm magic .
As Grevil said, the language that's most similar to the one used in these documents was a language used by sand demons . However, letters do not exist in that language, [Sand Graph] .
. . . No, to be more precise, letters for it did not exist then . Since these documents are clearly written in the lettered form of [Sand Graph] pronunciations .
Characteristics of the grammar and syntax are exactly the same . Which means . . .
『They must have developed letters after we died . I have no idea why present demons are using this language, but there's no doubt it's a major language among them . 』
『I see . . . But Sand Language huh . That's such a minor language . Even I only knew of its existence . 』
『Yeah . I'm surprised the language of those nearly extinct demons could survive to this day . 』
There were several major demon languages back then . But I never catch even a glimpse of any of those after reincarnating . [Sand Graph] is probably the only surviving language for some reason .
I continue the deciphering . Since there were several slight changes and new words added compared to the past [Sound Graph], I couldn't manage to decipher everything . . . But it's still quite a lot . If the one in my past era is [Ancient Sand Graph] then the present one should be called [Modern Sand Graph] .
"Done reading most of it . "
Afterward, I transcribe what I've read to the paper we have at hand . I left the unreadable part as pronunciations written in Common Continental language . Since this language is a phonetic language, I can make out the pronunciations even if I don't know its meaning .
"You read them, in that time frame!?"
"It's an unknown language you know!? . . . Is that decipherer magic really that amazing!?"
Ruli and Alma sounded surprised to hear me .
. . . Oh right, code decipherer magic through chant magic exists in this world for once . It's a defective magic that can only be used to solve extremely simple letter-shifting codes and takes super long to cast . Please don't compare that to a real magic .
"The magic looks for similar points and compares it to existing knowledge . . . Since this language is similar to an ancient demon language I know, reading it was a breeze . "
"""""Ancient demon language!?"""""
"Why would you even know that sorta stuff!?"
Ruli and Alma . . . Not only them, Second Academy teachers who were present also jumped up .
"Y-you know how to read ancient demon languages!?"
"Please, share your knowledge with us!"
Second Academy teachers pressed me for more . . . . Oh yeah, I didn't write a textbook for language study . All the necessary content for magic teachings I wrote in the textbook is in Common Continental language . . . but if the teachers need it, I can also make them a linguistics textbook .
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