Thank you, Chen Zhe!
I find your observations well thought and useful. While some of the problems in your second post (number of characters) might be explained by defectiveness of the script or (as you say) the presence of several digraphs, your observations about Voynichese prefixes seem to point to a language where prefixes play a prominent role.
It seems to me that Chinese works rather well in an aspect I am particularly interested in: reduplication.
In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., I find 27 instances of exact reduplication:
guāiguāi
tiāntiān
děngděng
cuìcuì
tiāntiān
gūlū gūlū,
bǎ bǎ
báibái
bèngbèng
xiǎoxiǎo
jǐnjǐn
jiànjiàn
tiáotiáo
yīngyīng
tōutōu
chángcháng
wāwā
mànmàn
xìxì
tōutōu
qiāoqiāo
shēnshēn
zǒuzhe zǒuzhe,
mànmàn
hǎohǎo
dìdì
yuǎnyuǎn
The frequency of exact reduplication appears perfectly compatible with what is observed in the Voynch ms.
Is this pinyin text something you can easily read and understand? If so, could you please explain the meaning of some of these occurrences of reduplication?
I find your observations well thought and useful. While some of the problems in your second post (number of characters) might be explained by defectiveness of the script or (as you say) the presence of several digraphs, your observations about Voynichese prefixes seem to point to a language where prefixes play a prominent role.
It seems to me that Chinese works rather well in an aspect I am particularly interested in: reduplication.
In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., I find 27 instances of exact reduplication:
guāiguāi
tiāntiān
děngděng
cuìcuì
tiāntiān
gūlū gūlū,
bǎ bǎ
báibái
bèngbèng
xiǎoxiǎo
jǐnjǐn
jiànjiàn
tiáotiáo
yīngyīng
tōutōu
chángcháng
wāwā
mànmàn
xìxì
tōutōu
qiāoqiāo
shēnshēn
zǒuzhe zǒuzhe,
mànmàn
hǎohǎo
dìdì
yuǎnyuǎn
The frequency of exact reduplication appears perfectly compatible with what is observed in the Voynch ms.
Is this pinyin text something you can easily read and understand? If so, could you please explain the meaning of some of these occurrences of reduplication?