Hypervector Analysis of the Voynich Manuscript

[MichelleL11]

Ossetic is by no means obscure, it's spoken by half a million people.

It does not have especially low number of vowels, in fact Russian has less vowels (6) than Ossetic (7).

Alanic language is kinda proto-Ossetic, because modern Ossetians descend from Alans. Northern Ossetia (region of Russia) is also officially called Alania. The Zelenchuk inscription which I mentioned is in fact Alanic.

Strictly speaking, Jassic is not a dialect of Ossetic, Jasses were an Alanic tribe which migrated to modern Romania/Hungary in the beginning of 2nd millennium AD. So their language and the Ossetic language descend from the common origin of Alanic. Presently Jassic language is dead, modern Jasses speak Hungarian.

Thank you for these observations - l hadn’t noticed discussion about Ossetic  vowels - just about the lack of articles.  There was some general discussion about at least some members of the Caucasian language family having only a couple of vowels - it is interesting that Ossetic is not one of them.

As for the beginnings of Jassic l was just echoing the Wiki as to the 13th century origins.  I acknowledge this could be incorrect - l certainly have no expertise in this area. Unfortunately the size of the written corpus is likely too small to be useful for this kind of analysis.  But l’d still like to see that document - l wonder what alphabet it was written in?

I wonder if the corpus of written Alanic would be large enough to use in an analysis such as this one.

In any case, l’m interested in learning more and grateful the group has members much more able to get good information about this possible direction than myself.  Of course, l am happy to lend my help if that would be useful.