On consonants and vowels in Voynichese
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(23-02-2023, 01:37 PM)tavie wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.34% of all word finals - a third of all words - on the page seems a very high percentage to me.

Maybe the said sections where -sama ending is common are liturgical texts written in a poetic style, thus have word endings that are appropriate for this kind of literary work. One such example of corpus of texts where words tend to end similarly is the Quran, and the glyphs concerned are but too letters و and ن.Yet, if you transcribe it in French, it would give something like oune, which is just about the same ratio as suggested by my system. And if entropy matters most to you, and you want to keep it low, let me mention that we have a huge margin to actually get to fit the VMS entropy within the frame of natural languages, which, would be required if we make the hypothesis that it is written in a natural language. So far, the finding that makes the entropy low is more of a painful pill to swallow than it is a truth carved in marble that has to remain true if we end up finding the scriptural cipher.
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RE: On consonants and vowels in Voynichese - by Arichichi - 23-02-2023, 01:52 PM

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