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[Antonio García Jiménez]

Although with obvious differences, my theory about the script is comparable to the conclusion that William Friedman reached after many years of study.

As is known, Friedman thought that the Voynich script was an early attempt to construct an artificial or universal language of a priori type. That is, he didn't believe that groups of glyphs should be read as if they were words, but rather that each glyph should be interpreted separately, given that it represented a concept or category. Although he didn't make it explicit, according to his model, language would be formed by interpreting the first glyph of each group as containing a general idea, the second glyph would continue to develop the idea, and so on.

What I agree with him on is that each glyph has a semantic content; it's a symbol that represents a reality. It can be a celestial object or a position on the eclitic circle. Each group of glyphs would represent a celestial configuration. Friedman, for example, would see gallows as a category that forms a chain encompassing other, smaller concepts. In a way, I also believe gallows are a category, since for me they represent the sun.