28-03-2019, 01:08 PM
Here is a revised and updated version of the letter correspondence table, accounting for the addition and clarification that I explained in my notes to the reading and interpretation of the first line of the last paragraph of the Voynich MS on folio page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
It still remains to place Voynich [m] and [g] in particular in the correspondence table. So far in passages on other pages my best reading and interpretation has been that they are likely to correspond to Greek sigma, thus representing alternate characters for [y]. But I do not want to rush to this conclusion. Voynich [g] is very rare, occurring less than 100 times in the entire almost 38,000-word MS. And Voynich [m] is well-known to be primarily a line-ending character. As such it may tend to represent line-final word endings in a more general way.
Also, I am curious about the lack of an alternate character for Voynich [r] (Greek lambda and rho), since all the other consonant series characters now seem to have them (if [g] and/or [m] are alternates for [y]). But I have not seen evidence for the existence of such a character yet. Perhaps it is possible that yet another form of the loop on top of the [sh] character could possibly prove to be such a character. But trying to clearly determine the distinction between two different forms of open (less closed) loops on top of [sh] strikes me as quite difficult. So far all instances of [sh] with open loop on top have made more sense as Greek tau/theta/delta.
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Geoffrey Caveney
It still remains to place Voynich [m] and [g] in particular in the correspondence table. So far in passages on other pages my best reading and interpretation has been that they are likely to correspond to Greek sigma, thus representing alternate characters for [y]. But I do not want to rush to this conclusion. Voynich [g] is very rare, occurring less than 100 times in the entire almost 38,000-word MS. And Voynich [m] is well-known to be primarily a line-ending character. As such it may tend to represent line-final word endings in a more general way.
Also, I am curious about the lack of an alternate character for Voynich [r] (Greek lambda and rho), since all the other consonant series characters now seem to have them (if [g] and/or [m] are alternates for [y]). But I have not seen evidence for the existence of such a character yet. Perhaps it is possible that yet another form of the loop on top of the [sh] character could possibly prove to be such a character. But trying to clearly determine the distinction between two different forms of open (less closed) loops on top of [sh] strikes me as quite difficult. So far all instances of [sh] with open loop on top have made more sense as Greek tau/theta/delta.
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Geoffrey Caveney