11-06-2025, 08:40 AM
What do we see when Europeans used to alphabetic writing approach a language without alphabetic writing? Do they invent a new script or do they Romanize?
The answer is almost invariably the second, and with a good reason: you want to make reading the language easier for people trained in the Latin script, so you make it as much like Latin script as possible. If Voynichese is seen as an invented alphabet, this would argue against such a scenario.
The answer is almost invariably the second, and with a good reason: you want to make reading the language easier for people trained in the Latin script, so you make it as much like Latin script as possible. If Voynichese is seen as an invented alphabet, this would argue against such a scenario.