Was Voynichese meant to be pronounced?
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By assigning the Voynich glyph e to the letter "e" on the keyboard, the EVA system has, in a sense made Voynichese more pronounceable.

Imagine trying to say chedy to someone at a Voynich conference without converting the c-shape to a vowel.


People claiming decipherments of the VMS in both western and some of the eastern languages (not the abjads), almost always assign ch as a consonant and e as a vowel, and usually also assign y as a vowel. That's because it makes sense to us that way.

Now imagine if all of them were consonants, it would be hard to pronounce (and may not have been designed to be pronounced) or, alternately, if the vowel-consonant shapes were reversed (so that chedy were something like "amis") then some of the tokens would be pronounceable but they would have to be evaluated differently.
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RE: Was Voynichese meant to be pronounced? - by -JKP- - 11-10-2019, 03:30 PM

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