13-09-2020, 02:08 AM
(13-09-2020, 01:44 AM)Emma May Smith wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Can I ask what evidence within the manuscript itself lead you to believe the text is written in Basque?
The primary motivation for the hypothesis is the possibility of representing the Basque language in a relatively unambiguous manner with a relatively small and restricted number of characters in a script. In my view this is and always has been the primary obstacle to identifying any even remotely plausible hypotheses about the possible language of the Voynich ms, so it is the first issue that needs to be addressed in any hypothesis as far as I am concerned.
Secondarily, I can point to the plausible potential identification of certain extremely frequent Voynich ms words, such as [daiin] and [chedy], as certain likewise very common and basic Basque words, in this case "zen" ('was') and "hik" ('you' singular familiar ergative) respectively.
May I ask what other types of evidence within the ms itself that you would look for to generate a hypothesis about the possible language in which the text is written?
Geoffrey