Phonology of Voynichese

[geoffreycaveney]

It might be worth reading my post You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

I think it's also bearing in mind the possibility You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (though the latter is uncertain).

Yes, the observations about [a] and [y] are very interesting and significant, I agree. But there may be many various explanations of these phenomena. For example, about the alternation of final [-y] and [-aiin] as suffixes of the same roots: Many researchers have observed that the glyph [y] has the shape of the common medieval Latin ms abbreviation for the "-us" suffix. If [-y] is also being used here to represent a suffix "-Vs", then this alternation could represent for example [-y] = nominative "-Vs" and [-aiin] = accusative "-Vn". In this case, the vowel is written as [a] in the [aiin] suffix, but not written separately in the [y] suffix. Such an explanation could be valid for this phenomenon in a number of medieval European languages.

I will definitely research your data about [a] and [y] in more depth, and consider other implications of these observations.

Geoffrey