Vord paradigm tool

[pfeaster]

Yes, that's the one. I think a few other glyphs (like [d] and [l]) have their own patterns too.

The kind of arguments that we can make from these triplets are pretty substantial, if they can be reliably proven.

I'm not sure if this is what you have in mind, but I have one script that's designed to find all pairs of words that vary in some consistent way (e.g., beginning [ok] versus [qok]) and to provide statistics about the pairs side by side for comparison.  It would have to be modified a bit to handle triplets all at once, but maybe it can contribute something even in its current form.  Right now it's set up to use the ZL transcription and to ignore comma breaks, and limited to paragraphic text, though it would be easy to change those settings.

This may all be reinventing the wheel, but here are a few quick results, for whatever they may be worth:

Among word pairs with at least one [qot*] token and one [ot*] token:
 - The [qot*] group has 931 total tokens, and the [ot*] group has 1474 total tokens (ratio: 0.63 : 1).
 - In the top ten word pairs by frequency (#1-#10), the [qot*] group has 603 total tokens, and the [ot*] group has 938 total tokens (ratio: 0.64 : 1).
 - In the next lower group of ten word pairs by frequency (#11-#20), the [qot*] group has 154 total tokens, and the [ot*] group has 282 total tokens (ratio: 0.55 : 1).
 - Among all those twenty word pairs, there's only a single word pair where the [qot*] word has more tokens than the [ot*] word: [qotchy] 60 vs. [otchy] 40, in position #10.

Meanwhile, among word pairs with at least one [qok*] token and one [ok*] token:
 - The [qok*] group has 2761 total tokens, and the [ok*] group has 1754 total tokens (ratio: 1.57 : 1)
 - In the top ten word pairs by frequency, the [qok*] group has 1993 total tokens, and the [ok*] group has 1089 total tokens (ratio: 1.83 : 1).
 - In the next lower group of ten word pairs by frequency, the [qok*] group has 337 total tokens, and the [ok*] group has 264 total tokens (ratio: 1.28 : 1).
 - Among all those twenty word pairs, there are only three word pairs in which the [qok*] word has fewer tokens than the [ok*] word:  [okeol] 57 vs. [qokeol] 46 (position #11); [okchey] 31 vs. [qokchey] 24 (position #15); and [okam] 26 vs. [qokam] 22 (position #19).

The individual word-pair ratios vary a bit: the top five word pairs by frequency for [qot*]:[ot*] yield 0.64, 0.56, 0.78, 0.53, 0.58, and the top five word pairs by frequency for [qok*]:[ok*] yield 1.30, 1.97, 2.94, 2.02, 2.56.  But the former definitely tend to be well under 1, while the latter definitely tend to be well above 1.