12-04-2020, 08:07 PM
You are right JKP and your observations are always a stimulus for research. If the symbol that resembles the number 9 is positioned in VM as one would expect in texts that use Latin languages, it is a powerful observation to study.
It is certain that the scribe wrote Latin fluently and most likely he used all his knowledge when he invented the script. The VM is the work of learned people and they probably wanted to make a code as close to an alphabet a normal script as possible.
The problem as I see it is that if the script were a language, the VM would have been solved not years ago but centuries ago, in the 17th century.
And with respect to the symbol that looks like a 9, of course it is not a number, because as Emma observed, its distribution in the script is complementary to that the symbol that looks like the letter a and both form a semantic unit with the glyph that looks like the letter o. The first symbol is an o with long tail and the second one an o with a short tail.
For me, simply a way to locate stars
It is certain that the scribe wrote Latin fluently and most likely he used all his knowledge when he invented the script. The VM is the work of learned people and they probably wanted to make a code as close to an alphabet a normal script as possible.
The problem as I see it is that if the script were a language, the VM would have been solved not years ago but centuries ago, in the 17th century.
And with respect to the symbol that looks like a 9, of course it is not a number, because as Emma observed, its distribution in the script is complementary to that the symbol that looks like the letter a and both form a semantic unit with the glyph that looks like the letter o. The first symbol is an o with long tail and the second one an o with a short tail.
For me, simply a way to locate stars