02-06-2025, 11:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-06-2025, 02:17 PM by oaken.
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You're right that it would be really hard to prove this, let alone reconstruct much meaning. I do think it might be possible to quantify the number of degrees of freedom in Silbo Gomero today and see if it too could be written in voynich with the amount of rigid structure it has. Also potentially the velum-dna database that I saw mentioned in the past, to identify where the calves came from. Is it known where Gadifer spent the last years of his life?
I also find it notable that the closest match (in terms of entropy) to a language that survives for comparison is ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian) which is anachronistic to the carbon dating. But a moment of colonial contact between europeans and an Indigenous island people was happening right around the carbon dating and much more nearby, explaining the obvious European influences in the VMS.
Edit: Having seen Koen's video, I wonder if the current writing system of Silbo Gomero looks about right entropy wise for a similar writing system, I worry that with six letters it might be a little too small.
I also find it notable that the closest match (in terms of entropy) to a language that survives for comparison is ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian) which is anachronistic to the carbon dating. But a moment of colonial contact between europeans and an Indigenous island people was happening right around the carbon dating and much more nearby, explaining the obvious European influences in the VMS.
Edit: Having seen Koen's video, I wonder if the current writing system of Silbo Gomero looks about right entropy wise for a similar writing system, I worry that with six letters it might be a little too small.