Voynichese Phonotactics

[Koen G]

The "o" not only is unusually frequent, but positionally it sometimes behaves like a vowel and sometimes like something else (possibly a marker or grammatical modifier).

The initial "o" is surely something special. I think it's more like something article-like that's attached to the word, and generally ignore it when attempting to interpret a word.

For the "c", I mean a case like this label for example (the one next to the hand):



I strongly suspect that this label is a variety of the word "kurat", which has existed to denote a type of leek from pre-Islamic times to modern day use. In that case, it is possible that the "cc" is actually a vowel-R ligature. Voynichese seems to toggle between cursive and non-cursive at times within the same word, so I believe this is possible.

This is also why I have lost all belief in a one-to-one alphabet solution...