22% of 38,000 vords
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(28-03-2026, 06:28 AM)oeesordy wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[..]. The voynich is abnormal with a huge anomaly of 22% of initial vowel being only "o" of the first letter of a vord out 38,000 vords.  Some say the voynich is 37,000 words so the % could be a little bit higher.[..]

This is assuming „o“ as a vowel; I am ok with that, since I also assumed it being a vowel. That makes two assumptions, but they are of course not anything like a proof.

o being a vowel, for example „e“, may cover also slight variations like „ye“ or „yö“. Such variations exist in Slavic laguages, they are covered by different characters today. But not necessarily in some old language or alphabet where o may have covered such additional variants and was differentiated and understood by readers only by context.

Finally, the source language simply might have a clear tendency to e-words.

At all, the o percentage may be less scary than it seems.

My transcription into a Word document says 37.242 vords, but I erased those annoying „half-width“ blank positions, where other transcriptions set a comma, joining previous and following vord to one combined vord. 
So other counts will point to 38.000~something.
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22% of 38,000 vords - by oeesordy - 28-03-2026, 06:28 AM
RE: 22% of 38,000 vords - by JoJo_Jost - 28-03-2026, 07:30 AM
RE: 22% of 38,000 vords - by oeesordy - 28-03-2026, 07:44 AM
RE: 22% of 38,000 vords - by JoJo_Jost - 28-03-2026, 08:40 AM
RE: 22% of 38,000 vords - by Stefan Wirtz_2 - 28-03-2026, 03:29 PM
RE: 22% of 38,000 vords - by oeesordy - 28-03-2026, 08:57 PM
RE: 22% of 38,000 vords - by Jorge_Stolfi - 29-03-2026, 09:25 AM

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