The Voynich Ninja

(25-12-2018, 02:40 PM)Common_Man Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This being an abjad script seems more probable to me. Malayalam is my mother tongue (it uses a Brahmic-derived script) and if all abugida scripts more or less follow that kind of style, there should've been a lot more vowel indicators (marks that are vowel specific, attached to consonants).

Yes, I think we do see few vertical combinations in Voynichese script, with the most notable one being ch and c"h. I agree that Voynich script does not look like usual abugida.

But even in abugida scripts, some vowels are not expressed by vertical combinations. In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., e, u and o have vertical combination, but i does not.

On the other hand, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., though considered as an alphabet in Wikipedia, is also somehow similar to abugida. Consonants have implied [ɑ] in it. “For example, ⟨ꓝ⟩ is [tsɑ̄], while ⟨ꓝꓰ⟩ is [tsē]. ”

If Voynich script is also working in this way, it would be natural to write ba simply as b.

This is also exactly how the Thai script works.
There are two implied vowels "a" and "o" that are not written.


Other vowels and di/triphthongs are added to the preceding consonant by writing them using one of the following five methods:
- before
- after
- above
- below
- any combination of the first three.
(Of course, there are strict rules which vowels and diphthongs are written where - this is not a free choice).

Examples:

this is the 'm' sound:  ม

following are ma, me, mi, mo, mu:  มา เม มี โม มู

this is how you write 'mia':  เมีย

On the other hand, kanom is written knm:  ขนม

A nice example of "rotating" decorated ascenders on most pages, sometimes connected to each other (see f. 3r, 4r, etc.).

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (ca. 1474)

As an aside, long braided line endings fillers on f. 1r that we talked about earlier in this thread.

f. 39v:
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f86r:
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