(04-08-2024, 03:12 PM)A.Wilmarth wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I hope that in addition to the character mapping results you continue to share your thoughts on this part of the process as well.
Yes, I will continue to share my results on GoodReads/Amazon, with links here and on voynich.net.
Another member of this forum has expressed interest in helping me apply programming skills and computing power to this process. This would accelerate the number of permutations of (transliteration) x (target language) that I am able to test.
In the meantime, I am selectively exploring additional transliterations for manual testing. For example, my v221 through v226 transliterations assume that the glyphs {o}, or {9}, or both, are position-dependent. The assumptions are, for example, that an initial {o} does not have the same function (or meaning) as an {o} in the final, medial or isolated positions. That is, an {o} is at least two glyphs, which are visually indistinguishable. To make them statistically distinguishable, I replace initial {o} with {ó}, all other {o} remaining as {o}.
Likewise, I am selectively exploring additional medieval languages for which I can find sufficiently large corpora. For example, a colleague shared with me Uusi Testamentti (New Testament), the first written document in Finnish, dating from 1548. I am not sure that it retains the original spelling, in which for example the title was Se Wsi Testamentti.