05-10-2020, 08:31 PM
(05-10-2020, 08:20 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Keep in mind that at this point it combines verbose cipher + null + irregular spaces, which is quite a lot. It does give an idea of the challenges for bringing Voynichese in line with European languages.
Agreed about the challenges, no argument there. In terms of the spaces, I would describe the system as interpreting the vords mainly as syllabic, although there are exceptions. The fragment I presented is somewhat similar in this respect to the Linear B representation of Mycenaean Greek, which was also basically syllabic, but which used a separate "syllabic" character for many word-final consonants and for the first consonant of many clusters. Both of those situations also occur in my rendering of the Sorbian fragment into Voynichese here.
As for verbose cipher + null, as I commented in my latest post in the nulls thread, modern English spelling has many elements of a verbose cipher and nulls as well! So such things can occur naturally in the imperfect writing systems that people have historically invented to express their spoken languages.