04-01-2017, 01:43 PM
Davidsch, i'm working on the VMS, considering it's written with phonetic cipher. In Latin, of course.
This assumption divides the task into two:
1) match VMS glyphs to phonemes
2) match Latin words to pronunciation
And that's a complete disaster. When the key goes wrong you are never sure if it's due to error in 1) or in 2) or in both.
For example at the moment I suppose that Latin c is pronounced as [k] when it is the first consonant of the word and the next sound is [u] or [a] (but not [o]). Otherwise it's [c]. Also t in Medieval Latin is sometimes pronounced as [c], sometimes as [t]. Summing up I think that:
1) VMS-q is q and c as [k]
2) VMS-e is c as [c] and t as [c]
3) VMS-k is t as [t]
Woooh... Not easy to decode with that approach, I should say.
This assumption divides the task into two:
1) match VMS glyphs to phonemes
2) match Latin words to pronunciation
And that's a complete disaster. When the key goes wrong you are never sure if it's due to error in 1) or in 2) or in both.
For example at the moment I suppose that Latin c is pronounced as [k] when it is the first consonant of the word and the next sound is [u] or [a] (but not [o]). Otherwise it's [c]. Also t in Medieval Latin is sometimes pronounced as [c], sometimes as [t]. Summing up I think that:
1) VMS-q is q and c as [k]
2) VMS-e is c as [c] and t as [c]
3) VMS-k is t as [t]
Woooh... Not easy to decode with that approach, I should say.