Syllabification

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I'm not 100% sure yet about Voynich y. It may function as you say in some cases, but for now I read it as an "a with flourish".  So just a fancy way of writing a. (this is clearer in the MS than in EVA). An indication for this is that Voynich a rarely appears at the end of words.

I am careful not to use the word "function" when I refer to the VMS shapes that are derived from Latin. They are the same shapes in the same positions and I believe it's intentionally so. But... they may function in a significantly different way.

I'm also quite sure the Latin 9 is distinct from the Latin a in the VMS, as it is in Latin (or in the many other languages that use the 9 abbreviation). You'll even find places in the VMS where the 9 is superscripted as it often is in Latin.