What's so incredible about this 4th cenrury inscription is that most the written words (Latin alphabets version) are very much intelligible to modern Astronesia

What's so incredible about this 4th cenrury inscription is that most the written words (Latin alphabets version) are very much intelligible to modern Astronesian language speakers for examples Malay and Indonesian (~300M), although the language were suppose to be older than the Old Malay. As a comparison, the words from the Ireland Ogham stones from the same era (4th century) written in primitive Irish (before Old Irish) are not intelligible by the modern Irish Gaeilge speakers (~200K) [1]. If interested there is open source collection of Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campā available online [2]. [1] Ogham Stones [PDF]: https://www.heritagecouncil.ie/content/files/Ogham-Stones.pdf https://www.heritagecouncil.ie/content/files/Ogham-Stones.pd... [2] Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campā (Champa): https://isaw.nyu.edu/publications/inscriptions/campa/inscriptions/index.html https://isaw.nyu.edu/publications/inscriptions/campa/inscrip...