Detecting Vowels in the Voynich Text
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Arabic is a Semitic ("Afroasiatic") language too.  The mos important one by number of speakers.

The traditional Arabic script writes only the long vowels. Natv Arbc spkrs cn uslly gess th shrt vowls.  But, if the language is Arabic (not saying it is!) perhaps one reason why the Author chose to invent a new script was to record the short vowels, which he had difficulty guessing.

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Detecting Vowels in the Voynich Text - by quimqu - 01-09-2025, 01:16 PM
RE: Detecting Vowels in the Voynich Text - by Jorge_Stolfi - 01-09-2025, 06:17 PM

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