Vord frequency histogram as an indicator of the text category

[-JKP-]

So this means that they are unique because they combine chunks in a way that happens to be unique. But there must also be words that really do unique stuff? Would it help to study those as a separate category?

Yes, the combinations are unique, the components frequently are not.

Sometimes the two combined vords appear to be vords in the way we think of words and sometimes the combined units appear to be word + affix (most often a suffix). So, if EFG is a common suffix (or what appears to behave like a suffix, showing up mostly at the ends of different vords), you might see unique vord ABCDEFG as well as unique word HIJKEFG, with EFG also showing up at the ends of other vords (to create combinations that are not unique).

There's another group of "unique" words that I haven't figured out yet, such as dydyd. I've spent time studying the other patterns, but not ones constructed like this, out of repeated but sometimes incomplete smaller units, but they appear less common than the other forms.



I've been compiling some statistics on unique vords. Depending on which transcription system you use (I use my own), there are about 30 unique vords on the first page, but the following plant pages tend to have about 6 to 12 unique vords, depending on how much text is on that page. If it's a long page (e.g., three paragraphs), there might be as many as 20, but the proportion is fairly consistent.


It has been said that maybe the unique vords in the big-plants section are the plant names, but they are not always the first vord and many will break into smaller components. For example, the second vord in the "water lily" plant is unique, unless you break it into components... then it becomes two common components with EVA-P in between and since EVA-P MAY function differently from other glyphs (possibly as a capitulum or some other marker or modifier), this would make logical sense (it's just one way to look at it, but there seems to be some support in the rest of the text for this interpretation).


I could go on for about 20 pages describing just this aspect of the text alone. It's hard to encapsulate it in one post.