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.
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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