04-11-2025, 06:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-11-2025, 07:50 PM by Trithemius.)
Hello Voynich Ninja forum,
First time poster and just joined the forum. I've been interested in the Voynich for a while now and wanted to run a little something by the group here to see if anyone else has noticed it as well.
I was looking at the character "9", which I'm sure we all know occurs at the end of a word like ~88% of the time we see it in the text.
Then I started looking at bigram suffixes ending in 9 and found this--
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Which shows that, obviously 89 is a super common word ending (44% of 9-ending words are 89).
Then, looking at the second most common, c9, I noticed that the same c9 pattern appears in many of the next most common 9-ending suffixes
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c9, C9, 19, D9, H9, K9 and so on. So, really, we might think of the true distribution of 9-ending suffixes to be something like this--
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Curious what the general sense is about the 9 character is around here, like whether it likely has a distinct phonological value or if its merely some orthographically fixed spelling convention.
Sorry if this is really basic/already explored.
First time poster and just joined the forum. I've been interested in the Voynich for a while now and wanted to run a little something by the group here to see if anyone else has noticed it as well.
I was looking at the character "9", which I'm sure we all know occurs at the end of a word like ~88% of the time we see it in the text.
Then I started looking at bigram suffixes ending in 9 and found this--
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Which shows that, obviously 89 is a super common word ending (44% of 9-ending words are 89).
Then, looking at the second most common, c9, I noticed that the same c9 pattern appears in many of the next most common 9-ending suffixes
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c9, C9, 19, D9, H9, K9 and so on. So, really, we might think of the true distribution of 9-ending suffixes to be something like this--
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Curious what the general sense is about the 9 character is around here, like whether it likely has a distinct phonological value or if its merely some orthographically fixed spelling convention.
Sorry if this is really basic/already explored.