05-03-2017, 09:33 AM
(24-02-2017, 08:09 PM)Emma May Smith wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(24-02-2017, 02:32 PM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.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.
In some languages all or almost all words end in a vowel, and the Voynich text may only have two clear vowels in o and y.
The question whether the frequent appearance of y at ends of words (about one third of all words) is abnormal clearly deserves a closer look.
Pending that, I should tone down the importance of this observation.

