10-09-2016, 07:02 PM
(10-09-2016, 06:45 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote:I think the fact that q is almost totally absent from the labels points toward it being a morphological marker of some kind - you don't need it to label individual items, but you do need it to write complete sentences.
That's an excellent consideration. Is q really absent from labels? Could anyone please derive the "alphabet of labels" - which glyphs are used and which are not?
I can say, from analysis of the labels, that they exhibit a number of differences from the main text, one of them being the lack of 4o (I can't remember if 4o was completely absent from labels without double-checking, but I believe they were).
I considered for a while whether they might be "et" (&) signs (which would more likely show up in regular text than on labels) but they don't show up in all the places one would expect them in the main text if they were.