10-09-2016, 01:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-09-2016, 01:58 AM by ThomasCoon.)
-JKP- wrote:I think it's possible that certain glyphs could stand for multiple characters
-JKP- you've probably heard me say this before, but an easy solution could be that combinations of Voynich letters encode multiple characters. Take the signs e o a r and l. Just 5 Voynich signs could make 25 combinations (ar = a, or = b, er = c etc.) and that would solve the constrained alphabet problem (and the low entropy problem). This is why I think that Voynichese is a mix of 2-sign combinations and some letters that stand alone (maybe [y], [s] and [d]).
Emma May Smith wrote:Phonology and grammar follow universal tendencies. They could be very constrained in their sounds and grammar, but they would still adhere to some underlying principles.
Ah, a fellow Chomskyan linguist
