Gallows Island

[cvetkakocj@rogers.com]

es, I know that very well.  That is why I wrote "The p and f gallows are most likely just calligraphic variants of t and k, or of some combinations like te and ke (it is still unclear which ones)"

As Currier observed, many Voynich glyphs look like Latin letter used in medieval European scripts, letters such as a, c, d, e, h, i, l, m, n, o, r, u, v, z, however the Germanic letterforms k, t are missing, therefore, it is reasonable to assume that they stand for k and t. The Latin letters p, f are also missing and many researchers are transcribing EVA p and f as Latin p and f. Some experts on Voynich grammar, starting with Currier, also believe that EVA p and f might stand for abbreviated pe and fe, which according to the Voynich grammatical peculiarity of dropped vowels does not make much sense. Without knowing the language, one cannot assume, how many missing te and ke there should be. What I noticed missing is the letter combinations sv, cv, zv (Slavic) , zw, sw (Germanic), sue (Latin), that were frequently used in the 15th century. Assuming that these letter combinations are represented in the Voynich Manuscript as eva p and f, this would also explain relatively few initial s letters in the Voynich manuscript. Also, many important Slavic words that would be expected to have prominent place in the Voynich Manuscript, start with SV/ZV/CV.