Different behaviours in line-final words...?
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Hi Nick,
in the post you linked you ask:

Quote:In Voynichese, we see the EVA letter combination ‘-am’ predominantly at the right-hand end of lines, which has given rise to the long-standing suspicion that this might encipher a hyphen character, or a rare character (say ‘X’) appropriated to use as a hyphen character. For what conceivable kind of character would have a preference for appearing at the end of a line?

In manuscripts that are not much abbreviated, abbreviation signs can have a preference for the end-of-line position.

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A few years ago, I posted a different example on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (BAV Vat Lat 410, in particular, see the 3-like 'rotated m' through the manuscript, and the rarer -9 for us). I believe that EVA:m and g could be abbreviation signs. For what is worth, m looks like an r-abbreviation and g like a d-abbreviation.

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RE: Different behaviours in line-final words...? - by MarcoP - 16-12-2019, 08:17 PM

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