Number of syllables distribution

[Emma May Smith]

Well, given that for two representative known plain texts, one in Latin and one in middle Dutch, the syllable count is quite different, there is a rather wide range of syllable counts that could be considered 'normal'.

We don't know what are the vowels in Voynichese, but it is clear that we can choose them such that the resulting syllable count is within this normal range. In fact, different definitions lead to quite different distributions.

From what I read, Emma did not choose her vowels/consonants in order to achieve a 'normal' syllable count, but the process in this thread seems to have involved some tuning, thereby ending up close to Latin.

This is clearly a basic but worthwhile outcome: a) a fairly simple definition of "syllable" is achievable which results in b) a naturalistic syllable-per-word distribution. It doesn't prove much about linguistic theories, but it shows that there's no real problem in this regard. Nor is there a lack of "short" words.

I think there's a lot more work we could do with these potential "syllables", however, to turn them into something upon which deeper analysis can be built.