Hi Nablator,
while what you write is certainly true, like Peter's observations about German dialects, the system looks rather robust respect the changes that one can see in a single language. This analysis is based on trigrams and medieval Latin is not much different from classical Latin ('ae' became 'e' etc, but nothing like the difference between, say Latin and Italian).
What concerns me here is that EVA and CUVA are treated like transcriptions, not transliterations. If I understand correctly, Ossetic and Adyghe result similar to EVA and CUVA because 'yda' and a few other trigrams are frequent in these four files and rare elsewhere. But we have no idea of the sounds corresponding to y, d and a, even if Voynichese is phonetic (as I believe, but who knows really?). yda could read 'yda', 'ero', 'uge'... but also 'clo', 'tra'..., it could stand for a single sound or not be phonetic after all. In comparison to this huge search-space, differences between dialects and time-variants seem to me negligible.
It's somehow like considering Adyghe similar to Voynichese because words like 'pched' 'shchy' 'kesy' occur both in Adyghe and in the Voynich EVA transliteration.
When You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. suggested some kind of sorting of the trigrams, I guess he was addressing this problem. But I cannot think of an obvious solution.
while what you write is certainly true, like Peter's observations about German dialects, the system looks rather robust respect the changes that one can see in a single language. This analysis is based on trigrams and medieval Latin is not much different from classical Latin ('ae' became 'e' etc, but nothing like the difference between, say Latin and Italian).
What concerns me here is that EVA and CUVA are treated like transcriptions, not transliterations. If I understand correctly, Ossetic and Adyghe result similar to EVA and CUVA because 'yda' and a few other trigrams are frequent in these four files and rare elsewhere. But we have no idea of the sounds corresponding to y, d and a, even if Voynichese is phonetic (as I believe, but who knows really?). yda could read 'yda', 'ero', 'uge'... but also 'clo', 'tra'..., it could stand for a single sound or not be phonetic after all. In comparison to this huge search-space, differences between dialects and time-variants seem to me negligible.
It's somehow like considering Adyghe similar to Voynichese because words like 'pched' 'shchy' 'kesy' occur both in Adyghe and in the Voynich EVA transliteration.
When You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. suggested some kind of sorting of the trigrams, I guess he was addressing this problem. But I cannot think of an obvious solution.
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