previous Basque theories of the Voynich ms?
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(13-09-2020, 02:08 AM)geoffreycaveney wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.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?

I would like you to demonstrate:
  • Why a particular glyph should be identified as a vowel.
  • Why a particular glyph should be a plosive/fricative/liquid/nasal/semivowel.
  • Why particular words or affixes should be considered specific parts of the grammar.
The idea is that even without a candidate language, you should be able to demonstrate the principles of the underlying language. Starting from internal evidence only I want you to argue how you got to the idea that [r] = /r/ or [l] = /l/. Can you demonstrate that they fit into a class like liquids? That clusters such as [lk] = /lt/ make sense? That [chedy] = /hik/ "you (erg)" makes sense? What is "you" doing in the text? What verbs does it relate to?
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RE: previous Basque theories of the Voynich ms? - by Emma May Smith - 13-09-2020, 11:47 AM

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