Absorption encryption is one of the core principles of my Bavarian encryption hypothesis. The basic idea is that function words (articles, prepositions, verb prefixes) are not encrypted independently, but are absorbed into the following content word as prefixes.
Specifically, this works in three absorption steps:
Articles → o-prefix: The article (der, die, das, ein, einem, ain...) is deleted and an o-prefix is added to the following content word. So: die wurtzen → owurtzen.
Prepositions → qo prefix: Prepositions (in, mit, von, auf, durch...) are deleted and the following word is preceded by a qo. If an o from the article is already present, qo replaces the o – it is not stacked. So: von dem keller → qokeller (not qookeller).
Verb prefixes → prefix y: Prefixes such as ge-, ver-, be-, er- are realised as y-. Thus, participles and verb prefixes result in words that begin with y-.
The result is that several words in plain text (e.g. preposition + article + noun) are combined into a single cipher word. Function words disappear as independent tokens and become structural markers within the encrypted word.
This also works with suffixes, but I'm still working on that: for example, aiin could mean Bavarian = ‘ain, ein, en’ (one / a). ‘En’ is one of the most common suffixes in German. So if aiin is attached to a word, it would be the suffix ‘en’; if it stands alone, it would be ‘ein’. With daiin, it's more complex: D (the 8) could also stand for several letters, such as ß, tz, z, ss and others. The same game as with aiin.
The elegant thing about this is that this system explains why the VMS has so few short, independent function words and why, at the same time, the statistical frequencies of the prefixes (o-words ~21%, qo-words ~14.8%, y-words ~4.9%) correspond so closely to the frequencies of articles, prepositions and verb prefixes in Bavarian (see above You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).
The remaining words then undergo Gallows substitution (initial consonants and consonant clusters become EVA Gallows characters), and the consonant clusters are also absorbed into one glyph, so to speak. Nasal rules and vowel reduction – but absorption is the structuring step that creates the VMS word structure.
In addition, word length, which is shorter in Bavarian than in VMS, is more evenly distributed and matches the Voynich. Various other statistical anomalies also fit better.
However, it is still too early to make definitive statements... therefore: work in progress...
Specifically, this works in three absorption steps:
Articles → o-prefix: The article (der, die, das, ein, einem, ain...) is deleted and an o-prefix is added to the following content word. So: die wurtzen → owurtzen.
Prepositions → qo prefix: Prepositions (in, mit, von, auf, durch...) are deleted and the following word is preceded by a qo. If an o from the article is already present, qo replaces the o – it is not stacked. So: von dem keller → qokeller (not qookeller).
Verb prefixes → prefix y: Prefixes such as ge-, ver-, be-, er- are realised as y-. Thus, participles and verb prefixes result in words that begin with y-.
The result is that several words in plain text (e.g. preposition + article + noun) are combined into a single cipher word. Function words disappear as independent tokens and become structural markers within the encrypted word.
This also works with suffixes, but I'm still working on that: for example, aiin could mean Bavarian = ‘ain, ein, en’ (one / a). ‘En’ is one of the most common suffixes in German. So if aiin is attached to a word, it would be the suffix ‘en’; if it stands alone, it would be ‘ein’. With daiin, it's more complex: D (the 8) could also stand for several letters, such as ß, tz, z, ss and others. The same game as with aiin.
The elegant thing about this is that this system explains why the VMS has so few short, independent function words and why, at the same time, the statistical frequencies of the prefixes (o-words ~21%, qo-words ~14.8%, y-words ~4.9%) correspond so closely to the frequencies of articles, prepositions and verb prefixes in Bavarian (see above You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).
The remaining words then undergo Gallows substitution (initial consonants and consonant clusters become EVA Gallows characters), and the consonant clusters are also absorbed into one glyph, so to speak. Nasal rules and vowel reduction – but absorption is the structuring step that creates the VMS word structure.
In addition, word length, which is shorter in Bavarian than in VMS, is more evenly distributed and matches the Voynich. Various other statistical anomalies also fit better.
However, it is still too early to make definitive statements... therefore: work in progress...