04-02-2016, 08:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-02-2016, 08:20 PM by Emma May Smith.)
Job, your statistics are very interesting. For the letter replacements in other languages, were these the highest %ages that were found, or a random selection?
But, even so, we're still measuring words that occur not possible words. Any language with a relatively complex syllable structure will have many gaps - syllables that are phonologically acceptable but not in use. We know Voynich words have little structural variety. Could your tests be run on Pinyin?
It's something I've thought about, but have no good evidence to back up. So it is just a guess for now.
But, even so, we're still measuring words that occur not possible words. Any language with a relatively complex syllable structure will have many gaps - syllables that are phonologically acceptable but not in use. We know Voynich words have little structural variety. Could your tests be run on Pinyin?
(04-02-2016, 10:56 AM)-Job- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....What are your thoughts on the issue in terms of sound assignments? Were [r] the sound /n/, [m] could conceivably be /ng/. This would explain 1) its existence almost exclusively at the end of words, 2) its apparent variability with /n/, and 3) the similarity of the characters (assuming that the script was devised with the goal of showing such relationships). Naturally, this would force [l] to be /m/.
Given that the glyphs for "m" and "r" are so similar, it's possible that some of these pairs represent the same character.
In any case, if they are in fact different characters, we can at least rule out some vowel/consonant assignments.
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It's something I've thought about, but have no good evidence to back up. So it is just a guess for now.