(22-09-2016, 02:01 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Marco - what I'm asking is about the solution proposed by escape. Assigning the sounds k and t to gallows has consequences. Just looking up some Aramaic words on wikipedia, I see for example: כתבת kiṯḇeṯ, I wrote. In other words, the sound t is totally allowed in the coda.
I know for a fact that at least modern Turkish allows both k and t in the coda.
And so on...
This is a problem for the present, and indeed most, proposed solutions. That's what I'm trying to get to here.
I think this discussion is indeed far more general than the handful of words discussed by escape.
Since I think that both are interesting topics, I would have preferred to see them distinct, but never mind.
What can be observed in the VMS is that the gallows are not common suffixes.
Their statistics at the beginning or at the middle of words seem to me comparable with those of most other glyphs.
Also, the fact that so and so words exist in Aramaic is not significant per se. Voynichese also has a 1% of words ending in EVA -t or -k (one -otork- is included in the five labels we are discussing). What would be useful is computing and comparing language statistics.