Character Classes

[ThomasCoon]

Surely the different placements of [k, t] and [f, p] is a reason to put them in slightly different classes? The whole idea is to break down the script into smaller groups according to characters which work most similarly. So while all gallows are similar, there needs to be a subdivision within that group.

One of the potentially useful things from classification of characters is judging assigned values of different theories. So we might expect [ch, sh] to have similar values, and [k, t] too. The characters [f, p] would need to have some slightly bigger difference between them and [k, t].

Ah, I'm sorry, I misinterpreted - if your aim is to break up the Voynich script, then I agree that [p] and [f] do unique things. This doesn't automatically conclude that they should have different spoken values than [t] and [k], but that is a possibility also.