In 2016, Darren Worley mentioned Codex Cumanicus (Marciana, Venice, Cod. Mar. Lat. DXLIX, XIV Century) on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.; a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. available on archive.org was pointed out.
The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that can be seen on wikipedia is transcribed at You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. This is part of a list of words with Latin translation (and German in a later hand?).
The fact that German and Italian both appear in the Codex Cumanicus is another interesting feature (the different scribes and languages mostly correspond to different parts of the manuscript).
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., in which whole riddles are reproduced, seems interesting for the frequent reduplication of words ("tap tap", "biti biti bittidim", "butu butu"). The reduplication of "seng" (meaning "your" I think) at p.147 seems particularly interesting. Since the word could be similar to the reading of EVA:daiin daiin with Ardic's system: "seng seng" could then conceivably correspond to daiin daiin. But I believe that the high frequency of reduplication in these cases might easily be due to the "literary style" of riddles rather than to the Cuman language per se.
Anyway, whether Voynich is or isn't Turkic, my superficial impression is that the Codex Cumanicus could be a relevant parallel, providing an example of a manuscript produced with the contribution of different cultures. Of course, the later Aztec codices are also relevant in this respect.
I believe that the Voynich alphabet was created by someone familiar with Latin scripts. This is not only consistent with the left-to-right direction, but with the similarity of Voynichese characters with Latin scribal abbreviations observed by Mary D'Imperio and several others.
The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that can be seen on wikipedia is transcribed at You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. This is part of a list of words with Latin translation (and German in a later hand?).
The fact that German and Italian both appear in the Codex Cumanicus is another interesting feature (the different scribes and languages mostly correspond to different parts of the manuscript).
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., in which whole riddles are reproduced, seems interesting for the frequent reduplication of words ("tap tap", "biti biti bittidim", "butu butu"). The reduplication of "seng" (meaning "your" I think) at p.147 seems particularly interesting. Since the word could be similar to the reading of EVA:daiin daiin with Ardic's system: "seng seng" could then conceivably correspond to daiin daiin. But I believe that the high frequency of reduplication in these cases might easily be due to the "literary style" of riddles rather than to the Cuman language per se.
Anyway, whether Voynich is or isn't Turkic, my superficial impression is that the Codex Cumanicus could be a relevant parallel, providing an example of a manuscript produced with the contribution of different cultures. Of course, the later Aztec codices are also relevant in this respect.
I believe that the Voynich alphabet was created by someone familiar with Latin scripts. This is not only consistent with the left-to-right direction, but with the similarity of Voynichese characters with Latin scribal abbreviations observed by Mary D'Imperio and several others.
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