06-12-2021, 03:12 AM
(05-12-2021, 10:57 PM)R. Sale wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The contest is to turn VMs glyphs into a known language. Not to present a 'translation', but to demonstrate a methodology. So many ways to go wrong, but is there, was there originally, a way to go right?I believe the first step in solving the VM is to find the sources for the alphabet in the VM, in particularly the shapes of the letters and ligatures, not to guess the letters by assuming that a certain word means something in a particular language, because that same word can mean something different in a different language.
There is a way to guess some letters, like the Zandbergen and Landini did with 's' and 'b', which look like a mirror image of the Latin 's' and 'b'.
Following this, I had found all, but EVA-q and four tall VM glyphs in the 15th century European manuscripts. To this point, my transliteration alphabet can be replicated. I designated the VM tall letters for the letters and letter combinations in the comparative manuscripts, which do not appear in the VM. If I was able to do that, others can do that too. I am talking about the shapes of the letters. It would be interesting how many words in different languages can be obtained with the letter-to-letter transcription.
Without knowing the language, VM researchers have come to important observations about the VM prefixes and suffixes. Using the proper transliteration alphabet would enable to properly interpret the prefixes and endings. The variety of the same root words and different endings indicates the language is highly inflective.
The problem with highly inflective languages is that the words appearing in the VM, even if properly transcribed into Latin letters, cannot be found in any dictionary.
It would be most logical that the person having right (or more right) solution would be able to translate the words that appear most frequently in the VM, and not the one single word from the floral page, since the names of the flowers might be in a foreign language. The most frequently used words would be the oldest and perhaps still in use in the VM language.
The linguistic solution would also have to agree with other facts, like fashion, zodiac symbols, relationship to Emperor Rudolf II etc.

