(05-02-2018, 07:44 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Why are 'chol', 'chor', 'shol' and 'chor' more frequent then 'chal', 'char', 'shar' and 'shal'? This could be so many things. These words appear somewhat similar. Maybe one vowel was simply more frequent in such words than the other. Or maybe it's variation in the transcription system. Arabic "a" can often be transcribed as "a" or "e". A scribe can use both but favor one over the other.
Have you read the blog post from Nick Pelling about the [chol] [shol] mystery on page f42r? (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.)
Quote:Torsten: many of those questions could be answered hypothetically within a linguistic framework.
There is a big difference if you start with the precondition that the VMS contains language or not. In the first case you know from beginning that it contains language. But you still can't identify the language. In the second case you can come to the conclusion that it is a language or not. If you come to the conclusion that it is a language you also know there most characteristic features. At least you can say something about the linguistic typology of this language and about some basic grammar rules. With this features it should be very easy to identify the language used.