Number of syllables distribution

[Koen G]

For me it's not (yet) about which language it resembles most. I wasn't hunting for a match with Latin, in a way I rather de-tuned Emma's system, merely removing the conditional factors. That this ends up looking like Latin might indeed be a result of the way vowels were detected. But I don't think so, since the vowels were detected using general linguistic properties.

But remember Schmeh's interview with the linguist who thought Voynichese is not linguistic because there are no short words. Myself, I was rather worried that there would nt be enough long words.

But what is coming into focus here is that based on possible syllables, word length is of no concern even within European languages. Of course that does leave plenty of other concerns...