Editing Rohonc Codex (section)

===Sumero-Hungarian hypothesis===
Attila Nyíri of [[Hungary]] proposed a solution in 1996 after studying two pages of the codex.{{sfn|Nyíri|1996}} He turned the pages upside down, identified a [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] ligature, and then associated [[Latin alphabet]] letters to the rest of the symbols by resemblance. However, he sometimes transliterated the same symbol with different letters, and conversely, the same letter was decoded from several symbols. Even then he had to rearrange the order of the letters to produce meaningful words.

The text, if taken as meaningful, is of religious, perhaps liturgical character. Its beginning, according to Nyíri, reads:

{{blockquote|{{lang|hu|Eljött az Istened. Száll az Úr. Ó. Vannak a szent angyalok. Azok. Ó.}}
"Your God has come. The Lord flies. Oh. There are the holy angels. Them. Oh."}}

Nyíri's proposition was immediately criticised by [[Ottó Gyürk]], pointing to the fact that with such a permissive deciphering method one can get anything out of the code.{{sfn|Gyürk|1996}} Also, the mere fact that Nyíri makes an uncritical allusion to the fringe theory that the [[Alternative theories of Hungarian language origins#Hungarian-Sumerian hypothesis|Hungarian language descended from Sumerian]] discredits his enterprise.