30-04-2024, 06:00 PM
(30-04-2024, 05:38 PM)nablator wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(30-04-2024, 04:38 PM)pjburkshire wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.My hypothesis is that the people who created the Voynichese alphabet created it phonetically to help people learn to read the language that they already spoke (but who didn't read Latin) so there may be many cases where the Voynichese words have a different spelling from the way words are (now) traditionally spelled.
As shocking as it may seem, you are not the first to have this idea.However linguists are not totally clueless and the language family would have been identified long ago. No good match was found so far. The problem is much more difficult, there are many features that can't be explained by any language, phonetically written or not. Ignoring problems does not make them go away.
Garbage in, garbage out. I think the data may be dirtier than we like to think.