Gerard Cheshire, a researcher at the University of Bristol has recently deciphered a 600-year-old manuscript written in Voynich.
The researcher has claimed Voynich to be the only known example of proto-Roman language.
The language used was widespread in the Mediterranean during the medieval period, but it was seldom written in official or important documents because Latin was the language of royalty, church and government. As a result, proto-Roman was lost from the record.
The Voynich Manuscript was dated to the 15th century (1404-38), is written on vellum (a type of parchment paper made from the skin of a lamb, goat, or calf) with text and illustrations.
The manuscript was compiled by Dominican nuns as a source of reference for Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon — an autonomous community in Spain.
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SPARROW stands for Smart Performance Appraisal Report Recording Online Window.
It is an online writing of Annual Performance Appraisal Report (APAR).
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Online writing of APARS in SPARROW for Indian Revenue Services (C and CE) officers has already been implemented with effect from 2016-2017.
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