Some letters aren't letters
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The character y is interesting in yet another way.
It is very frequent, and it seems to behave almost normally.

However, when one makes a list of the vocabulary of Voynichese words, one find that more than one third of all words ends with a y.

I just cannot see how any natural language would behave in this way.

Linguistically / phonetically I also don't see any way out here, but I am not the expert.

It almost seems as if it has no further function beside saying 'end of word'.

Or, tongue firmly placed in cheek:

-y    -> default word ending
-r    -> word ending (variant 2)
-iin  -> word ending (variant 3)
-l    -> word ending (variant 4)

This of course hints at an indication of tones, for a tonal language, but I am fairly confident (without knowing for certain) that this would be anachronistic.

In any case, for me y is another character that cannot be mapped to a letter.
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Some letters aren't letters - by ReneZ - 23-02-2017, 09:08 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by Koen G - 23-02-2017, 09:34 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by -JKP- - 23-02-2017, 11:01 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by -JKP- - 23-02-2017, 11:19 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by nickpelling - 23-02-2017, 11:09 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by Anton - 24-02-2017, 12:36 AM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by ReneZ - 24-02-2017, 08:45 AM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by Koen G - 24-02-2017, 09:24 AM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by ReneZ - 24-02-2017, 10:16 AM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by Sam G - 24-02-2017, 02:30 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by ReneZ - 24-02-2017, 04:04 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by Sam G - 24-02-2017, 04:22 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by Koen G - 24-02-2017, 10:36 AM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by ReneZ - 24-02-2017, 10:46 AM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by Davidsch - 24-02-2017, 12:04 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by ReneZ - 24-02-2017, 01:57 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by VViews - 24-02-2017, 02:00 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by Anton - 24-02-2017, 02:28 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by Anton - 24-02-2017, 02:32 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by ReneZ - 24-02-2017, 02:32 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by Torsten - 24-02-2017, 04:41 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by Davidsch - 24-02-2017, 03:28 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by nickpelling - 24-02-2017, 06:06 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by Torsten - 24-02-2017, 09:18 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by ReneZ - 05-03-2017, 09:33 AM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by ReneZ - 05-03-2017, 09:47 AM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by -JKP- - 05-03-2017, 01:01 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by nickpelling - 24-02-2017, 11:00 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by Torsten - 24-02-2017, 11:25 PM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by ReneZ - 25-02-2017, 08:12 AM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by Torsten - 25-02-2017, 10:38 AM
RE: Some letters aren't letters - by Koen G - 25-02-2017, 09:03 AM

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