Bigram = phoneme theory (language agnostic)

[nablator]

Hello Geoffrey,

It should be noted that frequencies of very common bigrams (not just EVA-ed between "languages" A and B) vary a lot from page to page. For example f. 15v has the highest frequency of EVA-or, f. 58rv have the highest frequency of EVA-al. On the other hand some very common bigrams are missing or almost missing on some pages. For example there are no EVA-dy on f. 5v, 6r, 19v, 25v, 35v, no EVA-or on f. 26r.

If these very common bigrams stand for some cleartext or phoneme by themselves, to account for the high variability in frequency there may be homophones: other bigrams that play the same role. It should be possible (in principle) to identify them by finding an optimum partition of the common bigrams set (or any set of common patterns) that keeps the frequency of each group of bigrams (or patterns) as stable as possible over pages of large, relatively homogeneous portions of the VMs (one or several quires). I haven't tried it yet, maybe someone else has...