26-02-2019, 09:54 AM
In this case, I do actually mean synthetic (thank you for the clarification, Koen). An invented language with a synthetic structure.
Packing meaning into the structure of each word is more in line with Voynichese than a language like modern French that has a lot of joining words (e.g., It not is not there).
Older western languages sometimes don't even have articles like "the" (they simply aren't necessary). In Scandinavian languages, there is no "the". You simply tack on an ending if you want to be specific about the noun. Instead of saying, "The cat caught the mouse", if English worked like this you would say, "Catten got mousen". In other words, the "sense" of the word "the" is part of the word, not a separate word. Some languages append a letter or two to the beginning of the word to denote an article. Same idea, different way of doing it.
Some languages do this with "and". It is part of the preceding or following word, rather than a separate word.
Voynichese has a very high level of repetition at the beginnings and ends of tokens.
Packing meaning into the structure of each word is more in line with Voynichese than a language like modern French that has a lot of joining words (e.g., It not is not there).
Older western languages sometimes don't even have articles like "the" (they simply aren't necessary). In Scandinavian languages, there is no "the". You simply tack on an ending if you want to be specific about the noun. Instead of saying, "The cat caught the mouse", if English worked like this you would say, "Catten got mousen". In other words, the "sense" of the word "the" is part of the word, not a separate word. Some languages append a letter or two to the beginning of the word to denote an article. Same idea, different way of doing it.
Some languages do this with "and". It is part of the preceding or following word, rather than a separate word.
Voynichese has a very high level of repetition at the beginnings and ends of tokens.