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RE: Grammatical Gender - cvetkakocj@rogers.com - 26-04-2025
When you remove a prefixes and suffixes, you end up with roots, which in the VM are very simple, most of the time a one syllable words. This is what Emma M. Smith, Stolfi and some others pointed out. As for the indication of the gender, in some languages, like Slavic, gender is expressed with suffixes, not with articles. The absence of articles in the VM accounts for the lack of high frequency of short words. In Slavic languages, -l and -il (EVA m) are the most clear indication of singular masculine past and future participle. For the female gender, -a is the most frequent suffix for nouns and for verbs, however since words occur in different declinations, and different conjunction, the suffixes are different.
In the Voynich Manuscript, a lot of information can be obtained from prefixes and suffixes.
RE: Grammatical Gender - Dobri - 26-04-2025
(26-04-2025, 01:48 PM)cvetkakocj@rogers.com Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.... In Slavic languages, -l and -il (EVA m) are the most clear indication of singular masculine past and future participle. For the female gender, -a is the most frequent suffix for nouns and for verbs, however since words occur in different declinations, and different conjunction, the suffixes are different...Also, plural forms in Slavic languages end often in -e which would require using mainly vowels for the last suffix symbols in the cipher manuscript.
RE: Grammatical Gender - Ruby Novacna - 26-04-2025
(26-04-2025, 05:05 PM)Dobri Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Also, plural forms in Slavic languages end often in -e ...
Dobri, when you talk about Slavic languages, which languages are you talking about exactly?
RE: Grammatical Gender - Dobri - 26-04-2025
(26-04-2025, 06:22 PM)Ruby Novacna Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Bulgarian is my native language.(26-04-2025, 05:05 PM)Dobri Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Also, plural forms in Slavic languages end often in -e ...
Dobri, when you talk about Slavic languages, which languages are you talking about exactly?
RE: Grammatical Gender - Ruby Novacna - 26-04-2025
Are there any major differences between modern Bulgarian and 15th-century Bulgarian?
RE: Grammatical Gender - cvetkakocj@rogers.com - 26-04-2025
(26-04-2025, 05:05 PM)Dobri Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Also, plural forms in Slavic languages end often in -e which would require using mainly vowels for the last suffix symbols in the cipher manuscript.Most frequent Slavic suffix is i, which in the VM is spelled as 9-like y. The suffixes overlap (masculine plural noun, feminine singular dative), verbs in infinitive, imperative singular, masculine 3. per. sing., etc.) The final -e is most often pronounced as a short vowel or semivowel, which is not written.