22-09-2016, 02:43 PM
Thank you, Emma!
I only partially followed your argument, since I am not much into phonetics.
It seems to me that there are at least two different possible explanations for certain characters being rare at the end of words:
In the other thread, I made the example of n and m in Latin. They have similar phonetic behavior, but very different word ending statistics (because noun and verb suffixes often end with -m and very rarely with -n).
How can we understand which would be the better explanation for what we observe in Voynichese?
I only partially followed your argument, since I am not much into phonetics.
It seems to me that there are at least two different possible explanations for certain characters being rare at the end of words:
- the corresponding sounds are not allowed at the end of syllables (phonetic explanation)
- the corresponding sounds are not part of common suffixes (morphological/lexical explanation)
In the other thread, I made the example of n and m in Latin. They have similar phonetic behavior, but very different word ending statistics (because noun and verb suffixes often end with -m and very rarely with -n).
How can we understand which would be the better explanation for what we observe in Voynichese?