12-02-2020, 11:05 PM
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This website appears to have been made by either Ardic Team Alberta (ATA) themselves, or by a very loyal and devoted fan of their work. It showcases the transliteration crib and number of purported translations of words and sentences in the VMS. The English version of the website needs a lot of work; I fed it through Google Translate. Even though I know no Turkic languages, and it's clear that much has been lost in Google's translation, I was still fairly impressed at how much detail the authors went into about why they transliterated and translated each word the way they did. The page gets fairly deep into Turkic etymology and language variation, particularly the Azeri language. A linguist well experienced with the Turkic languages needs to go over the finer points of this commentary, and check their references. But at least they're willing to explain each of their translation choices in a way that's checkable and at least superficially logical.
The downside is, there are surprisingly few words, phrases, and sentences translated and explained so far. If the ATA can steadily continue putting out translations this plausible, with commentary this rich, of the entire VMS, then their theory merits the Voynich community's full attention. But that's a big "if". It's also possible that this showcase is exactly that: the cherry-picked best of the ATA's work. Time will tell when the ATA's papers pass peer review, and their books are published.
This website appears to have been made by either Ardic Team Alberta (ATA) themselves, or by a very loyal and devoted fan of their work. It showcases the transliteration crib and number of purported translations of words and sentences in the VMS. The English version of the website needs a lot of work; I fed it through Google Translate. Even though I know no Turkic languages, and it's clear that much has been lost in Google's translation, I was still fairly impressed at how much detail the authors went into about why they transliterated and translated each word the way they did. The page gets fairly deep into Turkic etymology and language variation, particularly the Azeri language. A linguist well experienced with the Turkic languages needs to go over the finer points of this commentary, and check their references. But at least they're willing to explain each of their translation choices in a way that's checkable and at least superficially logical.
The downside is, there are surprisingly few words, phrases, and sentences translated and explained so far. If the ATA can steadily continue putting out translations this plausible, with commentary this rich, of the entire VMS, then their theory merits the Voynich community's full attention. But that's a big "if". It's also possible that this showcase is exactly that: the cherry-picked best of the ATA's work. Time will tell when the ATA's papers pass peer review, and their books are published.