27-05-2016, 04:16 PM
I understand your point ReneZ, they obviously aren't as different as Thai and French, but I don't think their difference is insignificant. After all, the languages of the entire Indo-European family are "not that different" but those affinities don't mean our texts share all their properties!
I never suggested that the Voynich text was "just" a dialect (please reread my post). I don't believe it is just an unreadable lost language thing. What I suggested is the possibility encryption of a dialect/pidgin, which adds to the difficulty.
As you can see in the example I gave with the Trentino mining language, we find a higher frequency of letters we would not expect such as words beginning with X, as well as other factors such as the one I highlighted (german words with latin grammatical endings).
Also, dialects/pidgins could very well mix some of the languages you list as "very different":
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I never suggested that the Voynich text was "just" a dialect (please reread my post). I don't believe it is just an unreadable lost language thing. What I suggested is the possibility encryption of a dialect/pidgin, which adds to the difficulty.
As you can see in the example I gave with the Trentino mining language, we find a higher frequency of letters we would not expect such as words beginning with X, as well as other factors such as the one I highlighted (german words with latin grammatical endings).
Also, dialects/pidgins could very well mix some of the languages you list as "very different":
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There are many, many more.