Voynich through Phonetic Irish

[Doireannjane]

Are your translations based on substitution, one Voynich symbol = one Gaelic Irish phoneme? (possibly also with the use of digraphs etc.)?

Hi! So no, my approach was sound based. And there are a fair amount of exceptions/rules to keep up with phonetics and syntax. One single character is the suffix “cht” for example. One character is the suffix “in/eann/an”(in sound). The towers and half towers are two characters. A lot is lined out on my Substack. I have video lessons as well. There are several exceptions and my methods are relatively unconventional, includes a lot of me listening to different dialects. Some char combos produce a different sound.

There are also implied vowels (“i”without fada will usually invisibly intersect two consonant sounds for example)

Fada is changing sound of vowels to short or long.This is a Voynich character not an Irish one.  The Irish spelling equivalent in some single Voynich “characters” can  be combos of even up to 3 characters in Irish. Shapes built up on the R in the Voynich and also the R slicing through characters produce br and thr sound for example. 

This is just to name some.. I’m not great with phonemic notation haha which is why I generally I make videos lessons  to explain.

Let me know if you have more q’s! I also recommend watching some of TikToks where I walk through some of my process..