10-09-2016, 05:14 PM
(10-09-2016, 02:46 PM)Emma May Smith wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'll only look at a portion of the words so that readers aren't bored, but the above words strike me as simply what they appear to be: words which differ by a single sound. Imagine we applied some sound values to the Voynich letters to give the following list:
hab
habja
habjan
habla
hablan
hablja
habljan
haban
What is odd about this? Apart from the last none of the words is all that common. And though you can find small clusters on a few pages, it is something to explore rather than worry over. Is there any proof that these words are related either semantically or morphologically? Proving it would be a breakthrough but assuming it a danger. We can't even assume that words spelt the same are the same. Thinking back to the example given above: is "clips" a noun or a verb?
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I understand that you are speaking theoretically and, from that point of view, it's a good answer, but it's not enough for them to look like words. If you feel this is a natural language, then you need to identify it (or them). Much of the VMS can be resolved into syllables that look like words (or are words). It's even easier if the door is open to the words being from different languages, but that's not the same as resolving them into actual sentences or meaningful text.
It seems that one has to use about three or four languages to resolve this list into words. Perhaps you can fill in the gaps and explain all of them in a more cohesive way. If they can't be explained, there's a possibility they are just patterns and need to be dissected in another way in order to be understood.