Cvetka's Slovenian Theory Thread

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Although there was no consistent spelling, there are consistent grammatical pattern in the Voynich Manuscript, which are consistent with the transition of the Old Church Slavonic to Slovenian language.

Showing consistent grammatical rules in the VM would be a huge breakthrough. I speak Serbian, a language that has a lot in common with Slovenian and if the grammar is as close as the vocabulary, there should be a lot of endings ruled by grammatical rules (as much as in Latin, roughly, I guess). Your You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. curiously does not show any case/declension agreement between words (like adjective-noun), that should be an easy-to-spot grammatical feature in any Slavic language.

Because of my limited computer skills, I still did not learn how to calculate entropy, but Luke Lindeman who tested my first transliteration with SLO-VA (without any adjustments) told me the result was best so far, but still not good enough. This is understandable, because plenty of adjustments have to be done. I did not want to do the adjustments based on my knowledge and intuition, because I knew I would not be believed. I had to search for the grammar books where the grammar rules for such corrections are explained.

No skills required. If you can create a version of an old Slovenian text with all the adjustments that you need to make it closer to Voynichese, you can compare the entropy with my web-based entropy calculator: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

You are also going to have a huge problem with the frequency of letters. Where are all the words ending in "a" and "e"? If your mapping is correct (a = a, e = e) there are very few in the VM (each less than 0.2%). They should be the most common last letters of words. For example, in the Stična Manuscript (without the Latin parts): "a" 16%, "e" 15%, "y" 13%. I'd like to see how you explain a mismatch of two orders of magnitude.