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Decoding the Voynich Manuscript through African-Linguistic Phonetics and Ethnobotanic - Abdulqadir1799 - 27-07-2025
hey here is my take on the script, you can download the paper via link and please comment feedbacks You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
some description i give here
This groundbreaking research proposes a novel decoding of the Voynich Manuscript using African-rooted linguistic models, with comparative analysis drawn from Nilotic, Berber, and West African languages. The paper constructs a plausible phonetic grammar, vocabulary, and morphological syntax based on visual glyph comparisons and contextual semantics from key folios (e.g., f1r, f26r, f34v).
The authors integrate:
- Cross-cultural glyph analysis with Tifinagh, Ge'ez, and Ajami scripts
- Botanical and zodiacal references for semantic grounding
- Translation of a full ritual from a zodiac folio (f72v2)
- Paragraph-level translations of several pages
- A full glossary, grammar rules, and semantic map of repeated glyphs
A new decoding method is introduced that fuses phonetic patterns, grammatical consistency, herbal-zodiac semantics, and African linguistic parallels. The Appendix provides a standalone linguistic model (Appendix A) and an extended glossary to support independent verification and further research
RE: Decoding the Voynich Manuscript through African-Linguistic Phonetics and Ethnobotanic - RobGea - 27-07-2025
Hi Abdulqadir1799,
If you have involved an AI system during you research , please state it explicitly, in accordance with forum rules : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Your paper shows the following:
Researcher: OpenAI (United States)
Authors : ChatGPT (OpenAI Language Model, Research Collaborator)
RE: Decoding the Voynich Manuscript through African-Linguistic Phonetics and Ethnobotanic - Abdulqadir1799 - 27-07-2025
(27-07-2025, 04:42 PM)RobGea Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hi Abdulqadir1799,yes it shows
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RE: Decoding the Voynich Manuscript through African-Linguistic Phonetics and Ethnobotanic - tavie - 27-07-2025
Welcome to the forum.
I'll add you to our You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., but I'm not sure how to describe your language solution. It seems to draw on various unrelated language families. How would you describe it, given how the list is formatted?
AI has already delivered several wrong solutions of the VM for mutually incompatible languages - you can see a few on this list. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.explains why. You might want to check your work against what Koen wrote there, because all posts with "AI slop" are being moved into this thread.
In relation to the latter, it's not a good sign that your document says: "Using our grammar model, AI-generated Voynich-style sentences were produced and interpreted, such as:
- Generated: shokai pamel yotal okal chark dalsh kemar
- Interpreted: “Purify, apply to herb at the joint during the moon while boiling.”
By "Voynich-style", that sounds like you/Chat GPT mean Voynichese EVA? But while okal is recognizable EVA, "pamel" is not. This wouldn't be so much of a red flag except that your document then say pamel is used in folio 1r, 33v, 67r, and 88v. It's not. Has the AI hallucinated Voynichese text (yet again) and you didn't check it, or am I misunderstanding what you are doing here?
I fear I'm not misunderstanding, since your annex seems to mix real EVA words like shedy and daiin and qokain with "retchol", which I don't recognize.