Number of syllables distribution

[MarcoP]

Hi Emma,
I think the VoynichX is still not clear to me. I will try to re-read the thread in the next days and see if it gets any better

I guess that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. would have an overlap with VoynichX, but I don't understand enough of any of the two systems to have a clear perception of its extension.

About benches and e-sequences:
A possible experiment could be considering bench+e sequences as single glyphs, and see the effect on Sukhotin's algorithm (for instance). More than 90% of e-sequences follow a gallows, bench, or benched-gallows glyph. A difficulty would be deciding what to do with benched-gallows: gallows appear to be clearly distinct; we can experiment with assimilating benches and 'e'; but benched-gallows?
The characters following e-sequences are almost equally split among possible vowels [oay] and other glyphs, so the outcome of the experiment is not easy to predict....

I think the easiest was to do it would be to consider the [h] as part of the [e] sequences or equal to an [e]. Then [C] and [S] and [ck, ct, cf, cp] would be counted as glyphs in their own right. Maybe also insert a null after an [e] sequence or [h] not followed by [a, y, o] and that null would be a proxy which we might hope the algorithm would discover as a vowel?

(I seem to recall that one of the vowel finding experiments did actually find [h] as a vowel!)

This experiment seems much more approachable, but also here a few examples could be useful.
How would chey, cheeey, pchey, chol, ckhedy, chckhedy be encoded?

Of course, experimenting with and without the 'null' should be fairly easy.