23-01-2026, 09:06 AM
(23-01-2026, 08:40 AM)dashstofsk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[ You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ] for instance shows that gallow words are constructed to a pattern.
But on the first two rows of that table we already see that {qok,ok} x {eedy,aiin} grossly deviate from the random combination claim. Like what happens on many natural languages.
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Agreed, the Author clearly designed his alphabet with writing speed and ease as a primary goal. (It probably was still far from ideal in this respect, which may have motivated him to change the glyph values and spelling rules at some point. That is still a possible explanation for the A/B split.)
But "efficient glyph design by combining simple pen strokes" does not affect the probability that it is natural language.
You saw my own OKOKO/CMC model for Voynichese words, that is a bit more detailed than just a division into prefixes and suffixes. It implies many constraints on digraphs. And it could still be made stricter. And yet it is not incompatible with natural language...
All the best, --stolfi