(11-09-2016, 05:56 PM)Diane wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
Given the remarks made in a letter to Kircher by Georg Baresch - do you think it possible that each glyph might represent a logogram - either by substituting a simpler form for the more complex one, or by recording (approximately) the sound of each? I expect the latter would be more likely, and that would make each glyph a syllable, I suppose.
Emma can answer for herself but my opinion is that it's entirely possible that text like this could abjadic (designed so it doesn't require vowels, like many old languages, including Hebrew) or abugidadic (designed as syllables, as in many ancient languages and Asian languages). In the latter, each glyph is a syllable, which results in many short words (reminiscent of the VMS). It's one of the possibilities that particularly interests me.