How Many Common, Unique Letters Do *You* Think There Are?

[eggyk]

That anyone who is literate can read without learning a different alphabet or cryptography technique.

Exactly, so if the VMS text is ciphertext, it's entirely possible that each glyph represents a letter in that ciphertext. If that's the case the glyphs are effectively letters. But I suppose its not the point of the thread so i'll leave it. 

When I am feeling ornery I am a radical CLS adherent and think there might only be 2 (e and i) and everything else is just composed of them in some elaborate and possibly flexible system, but idk.

I had similar-ish thoughts of some kind of system when looking at f57v. Seeing how the glyphs are ordered makes me think that some glyphs are "built" from others. 

Like:
o + l = d 
o + v = l

Or that some glyphs are capital version of others, like r r -> m -> k

So I don't really have any letters that I definitely think are their own unique thing for sure. There are always plausible variances that you can make that groups them one way or the other and i'm open to a lot of them.


Anyway.. If I were to put what my answer/head canon is: 

o, l, d, q, f, k,  as unique characters

t ≈ q + k

p ≈ q + f

s ≈ variant of e e (but different, like an accented e or é)

i = n 
e = c 
a = y
r ≈ m
h =     

I suppose that puts me at 11 seperate characters.