27-05-2020, 06:50 PM
(27-05-2020, 04:58 PM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I spent some time browsing through the WayBackMachine page, but it does not seem to detail how the OKO encoding works: the page seems to be more about a word-structure model (something earlier than the crust-mantle-core model).
From what Stolfi says in the page linked by Rene, OKO appears to be close to an abjad:
You're right, Marco, it does seem to be about a word-structure model.
I might be missing your exact meaning about how OKO encoding works, but I don't believe Stolfi intended to suggest it was similar to an abjad. I might be missing Stolfi's meaning too but, as I read it, it appears to be kind of the opposite of an abjad, as in: in the OKO model, every other 'letter' in a 'word' is explicitly a 'vowel' (if you accept that a o and y are vowels, of course)
To save others going through Stolfi's extensive data tables in Note 017, I think this is the heart of the OKO model:
Stolfi observes that 98% of the text consists of 'words' which follow the pattern:
Q?O?(OK?)* = Q?O?KO?KO?...KO?
where:
Q = { q }
O = { a o y }
K = { k ke ckh ckhe
t te cth cthe
ch che
sh she
ee eee
l m s d
n r
in ir
iin iir
iiin
}
? = One occurrence or missing
* = Zero or multiple occurrences
He also says that a good proportion of the other 2% of the text might merely be scribal errors.
Please do correct any misunderstanding I might inadvertently have inserted in the above.