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"Currier A" and "Currier B" "languages" have been distinguished from each other by statistically significant peculiarities in formation of sequences.
Of course, it was made clear from the beginning that Currier A and B are not languages in the common sense of the word, the term "language" is used only formally for brevity. We do not know what is the real underlay mechanism or phenomenon that leads to the differences observed.
The problem is that while A and B are different, they are not totally different. Namely, there are vords that occur both in Currier A and B. In the course of working upon my latest blog post, I made some initial screening on the "Voynich stars" occurrences in the botanical folios with respect to Currier A and B. This was not included in the paper and the examination was far from comprehensive, but off-hand I did not see any strong correlation between star occurrences and Currier language. E.g., "dayside" (f68r1) and "nightside" (f68r2) stars on general may occur both in Currier A and Currier B. A given star may occur both in Currier A and B. E.g. the most frequent star of "otol" occurs mainly in Currier A, but has two occurrences in Currier B (these stats are limited to plant folios only). "otor", if I am not mistaken, happens roughly equally between Currier A and B.
The question is whether there has been any investigation of vords with respect to Currier languages. Which vords do occur only in Currier A or only in Currier B? Which vords occur both in A and B? Do all labels with significant frequency count occur both in A and B? The latter question, as you understand, is aimed at establishing whether labels are Currier-invariant.
"Currier A" and "Currier B" "languages" have been distinguished from each other by statistically significant peculiarities in formation of sequences.
Of course, it was made clear from the beginning that Currier A and B are not languages in the common sense of the word, the term "language" is used only formally for brevity. We do not know what is the real underlay mechanism or phenomenon that leads to the differences observed.
The problem is that while A and B are different, they are not totally different. Namely, there are vords that occur both in Currier A and B. In the course of working upon my latest blog post, I made some initial screening on the "Voynich stars" occurrences in the botanical folios with respect to Currier A and B. This was not included in the paper and the examination was far from comprehensive, but off-hand I did not see any strong correlation between star occurrences and Currier language. E.g., "dayside" (f68r1) and "nightside" (f68r2) stars on general may occur both in Currier A and Currier B. A given star may occur both in Currier A and B. E.g. the most frequent star of "otol" occurs mainly in Currier A, but has two occurrences in Currier B (these stats are limited to plant folios only). "otor", if I am not mistaken, happens roughly equally between Currier A and B.
The question is whether there has been any investigation of vords with respect to Currier languages. Which vords do occur only in Currier A or only in Currier B? Which vords occur both in A and B? Do all labels with significant frequency count occur both in A and B? The latter question, as you understand, is aimed at establishing whether labels are Currier-invariant.