27-06-2025, 07:28 PM
When vernacular languages adopted Latin alphabet, they adopted it for their unique sounds by:
- dropping a letter
- using one letter for two or more sounds
- using two or more letters for one sound
- slightly re-designing the Latin letterform
- invent new letter
- used diacritic markers
This means that even if the VM exact transliteration were possible (which remains ambiguous due to minims and other glyphs), the transcription alphabet could only be used to transform the text into Latin letters. Some words in different languages could be found in such transcription, but to convert the text to particular language, assuming that it can be recognized, the above steps must be considered.
There is no such a thing as simple substitution - VM glyph to Latin letter - except when the Latin letter stands only for one sound, and that letter in the proposed language is also pronounced only for one sound.
On top of that, the contemporary VM research is based on ZL transliteration and compared to the way the contemporary Wikipedia articles are written which used different alphabet than it was is use in the 15th century. For instance: Latin C =k, c, č, h, z; Latin tsch = č = ch = zh. Besides this medieval confusion, there are still differences between phonetic and book writing, sound changes, regional mix-ups and mistakes.
No chat gpt can handle that. When I asked it if it recognizes a few lines from ZL transliteration of the VM text, it told me it was from the VM. When I asked the same question and submitted one-to-one substitution, using Slovenian VM alphabet, the answer was that it has some Slavic flavour.
That same text, in which ch and sh was changed to č and š, the language was recognized as Slavic and quite a few of the words were correctly recognized, but many of them were still false guesses.
Asking chat-gpt to translate is useless.
- dropping a letter
- using one letter for two or more sounds
- using two or more letters for one sound
- slightly re-designing the Latin letterform
- invent new letter
- used diacritic markers
This means that even if the VM exact transliteration were possible (which remains ambiguous due to minims and other glyphs), the transcription alphabet could only be used to transform the text into Latin letters. Some words in different languages could be found in such transcription, but to convert the text to particular language, assuming that it can be recognized, the above steps must be considered.
There is no such a thing as simple substitution - VM glyph to Latin letter - except when the Latin letter stands only for one sound, and that letter in the proposed language is also pronounced only for one sound.
On top of that, the contemporary VM research is based on ZL transliteration and compared to the way the contemporary Wikipedia articles are written which used different alphabet than it was is use in the 15th century. For instance: Latin C =k, c, č, h, z; Latin tsch = č = ch = zh. Besides this medieval confusion, there are still differences between phonetic and book writing, sound changes, regional mix-ups and mistakes.
No chat gpt can handle that. When I asked it if it recognizes a few lines from ZL transliteration of the VM text, it told me it was from the VM. When I asked the same question and submitted one-to-one substitution, using Slovenian VM alphabet, the answer was that it has some Slavic flavour.
That same text, in which ch and sh was changed to č and š, the language was recognized as Slavic and quite a few of the words were correctly recognized, but many of them were still false guesses.
Asking chat-gpt to translate is useless.