Bigram = phoneme theory (language agnostic)

[-JKP-]

Do you mean from the perspective of natural language?

No, I have a nagging feeling that we are missing something very obvious and very artificial in the way Voynichese is constructed.

The rare (sometimes extremely rare) reverse bigrams are interesting. In which context they occur, how they relate to the positional nature of glyphs in words/tokens, all very interesting. I have no answer yet but several ideas that need to be further investigated.

Well, that's why I said from the perspective of natural language.

I think it's unlikely that it's natural language, but if it were, then a syllabic language is one kind of language that is constructed that way (the syllables are directional, they go one way but not the other).


Yes, the bigrams are directional. I've been kinda trying to say that for a long time. It's part of what I mean when I say the glyphs are positional. I've blogged about the fact that certain glyphs are followed by __, but not preceded by __.


It's also why I've frequently mentioned numbers (incuding Roman numerals) as examples of one kind of thing that is positional. You don't know if it's 35 or 53 unless you have "rules" for which one comes first. Same with Roman numerals... VII is different from IIV. A symbolic or synthetic language could also be positional.


There are two ways Voynichese is positional... the groupings of glyph combinations, and where they can occur in a token.