13-08-2017, 06:10 PM
This is more or less what I've been doing for the last few years: looking to understand adjacency rules both within words and across word boundaries. It's possible to learn quite a bit from this kind of study.
For example, we can show that k and t don't just look alike, they act alike too. That may seem like basic stuff but it's super important. Putting characters into groups based on how they work lets us think about word structure in more abstract ways. I think that, on the assumption the text is linguistic (not proven, but a worthwhile assumption to allow research*), we can identify a group of characters most likely to be vowels.
I'm currently working on some further research about character adjacency between the end of a word and the beginning of the next. It turns out that words beginning ok may be strongly related to those beginning k, but simply coming after different characters.
*I've researched along linguistic lines for a few years and have neither proposed a language nor a single reading. Yet I think I've managed to find some interesting things that non-linguistic researchers might also be interested in.
For example, we can show that k and t don't just look alike, they act alike too. That may seem like basic stuff but it's super important. Putting characters into groups based on how they work lets us think about word structure in more abstract ways. I think that, on the assumption the text is linguistic (not proven, but a worthwhile assumption to allow research*), we can identify a group of characters most likely to be vowels.
I'm currently working on some further research about character adjacency between the end of a word and the beginning of the next. It turns out that words beginning ok may be strongly related to those beginning k, but simply coming after different characters.
*I've researched along linguistic lines for a few years and have neither proposed a language nor a single reading. Yet I think I've managed to find some interesting things that non-linguistic researchers might also be interested in.