The Voynich Ninja

I have been thinking apart how to distinguish distinct glyphs in the Voynich manuscript and the way that makes most sense to me is to view interconnected or joined symbols to count as one glyph unit. So "aiiin" would count as one glyph. This way of defining glyphs increases their number, but seems more logical, otherwise one has to decide when to disentangle connected symbols and treat them as separate glyphs and this would seem to be very arbitrary and confusing. I know that someone might point to some complex interconnected benched gallows, but even in their case I am inclined to treat them as one glyph.

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We are all running in circles with Voynich manuscript. At this moment proving that some interpretation of the script is better than other is impossible.

Everyone should remember that EVA which is currently most popular notation of VM isn't some absolute truth written by God on stone tablets. It is just a work-in-progress notation invented in the 1990s which has good and bad sides. 

EVA tries to make as little assumptions as possible. One could say the "c" and "e" in EVA are the same symbol but it would be an assumption. EVA just stores all or most of little visible differences, maybe some of them in totally unnecessary way. But it remains to be proven.

Personally I would treat things like "ch" or "cth" as single symbol because the letters are connected there but things like "aiin" like different symbols because they aren't connected. But it is just my intuition.

Maybe then CUVA system is the one that you use? If I am not wrong, the first transliterarions used to work as you say, Mark. I agree with you that some EVA characters should be read together, and I think that CUVA grouping makes sense.

(03-12-2025, 06:54 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.joined symbols to count as one glyph unit

You already have this with the GC transliteration. Why don't you just switch to working with that.  in iin iir Sh ch cth ckh are all individual characters. Also with GC you don't have the problem of distinction between S and s .