Hypervector Analysis of the Voynich Manuscript

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Here are some examples of EVA-S (the left portion of the shape plus the "cap", the character that resembles a curved macron) and EVA-h, the right portion of the VMS glyph (EVA-Sh):

   




Here are some examples of EVA-s (lowercase). It frequently stands alone:




I don't see anything in these pics that indicates similarity between EVA-S and EVA-s, and it may be problematic for certain forms of computational attacks that the left portion of EVA-Sh (in the first pic) is combined with the macron-like shape above it.

The fact that the macron-like-shape sometimes touches the shape below it might be relevant and might not. In languages that use Latin letters/abbreviations, it does not matter whether it touches or not. Here are some examples:




In Voynichese, I don't know whether the shape or touching matters, but sometimes it touches the left top, sometimes the left bottom, sometimes the right top (very distinctly so) and sometimes it doesn't touch at all. The "messy" scribe (the one Lisa Fagin Davis has classified as Scribe 2) sometimes connects the macron-like-shape to the bottom left side of the first EVA-Sh curve:

   


I don't think EVA-S is directly related to EVA-s and since it is frequent, it should probably be given its own slot if text is collapsed down to lowercase.