Objective statistics about VMS text

[ThomasCoon]

Some more statistics:

• <y> appears 17,655 times, but in 6834 cases (38.7% of the time) it is in the combination <dy>
  
  
• <n> appears 6,141 times, but in 5,824 cases (94.8%) it is word-final.
  
  
• <n> appears 6,141 times, but in 4,760 cases (77.5%) it follows <i>
  
  
• <e> appears 20,070 times, but in 8,167 cases (40.7%) it follows <h>
  

Whatever system created the VMS (natural language/cipher/abbreviations etc.) has to produce three outcomes:

1. Certain glyphs appear almost always in certain positions (word-initial / word-final)
   
2. Certain glyphs appear more commonly around other glyphs (e.g. k after o, r after a)
   
3. Certain glyphs do both of the above two things.
   

An inference:

• Whatever <q> is doing in the VMS, it does not seem to function independently of <o> (with which it's grouped 97.5% of the time), and the letter after <qo> is usually a gallows (84% of the time). <q> seems to "need" an "o-gallows", but "o-gallows" does not need <q> and is often found independent of <q>.