19-06-2022, 02:22 PM
(19-06-2022, 11:10 AM)Searcher wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In this case, what we have to do with labels? It will turn out that many of them are two letters words. For example, the word otol consists of the two frequent bigrams, if every of these bigrams stand for one letter, it will be a word of the two letters, the same as otal, okol, okor, okal, okar and many others. So, do we consider them words or something else? If words, they are obviously not English, Latin, German or Italian.
Hi Yulia, as I wrote You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., I think that labels are a serious problem for the "plain verbose cipher" idea. If it is a verbose cipher, it is likely homophonic and labels suggest that there is more going on (e.g. heavy systematic abbreviation): such a complex system could explain why the manuscript hasn't been decoded yet. Personally I favour other ideas, e.g. an artificial or exotic language, but these have problems too of course.


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