04-05-2026, 04:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-05-2026, 04:11 PM by Jonas Barnun.
Edit Reason: Adding some nuance on my thoughts
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Thank you Rafal for your reply! I am very excited to write a post in the Voynich ninja forum, while I am getting deeper in the VMS rabbit hole!
In a sense yes, but in this theory the specificity of the Voynichese logogram would be that it uses a set of letters to “draw” a single logogram rather than being drawn like hieroglyphic or Chinese. However I am realizing while this theory is not impossible but first it is hard to prove and second if true the VMS would be impossible to decipher without a Rosetta Stone of some sort.
I will check out the Chinese thread but from the start I am already doubtful of voynichese being a phonetical rendition of Chinese because mandarin entropy is probably not as high as Voynichese (no statistics on that but Chinese is quite simple one consonant followed by any vowel forms a unit and there are not many limitations like we see in the VMS but I could be wrong).
(04-05-2026, 01:58 PM)Rafal wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If I understand you correctly, you suggest that Voynich could be written in logographic script, just like traditional Chinese script. It codes ideas but not how the words sounds phonetically:
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In a sense yes, but in this theory the specificity of the Voynichese logogram would be that it uses a set of letters to “draw” a single logogram rather than being drawn like hieroglyphic or Chinese. However I am realizing while this theory is not impossible but first it is hard to prove and second if true the VMS would be impossible to decipher without a Rosetta Stone of some sort.
I will check out the Chinese thread but from the start I am already doubtful of voynichese being a phonetical rendition of Chinese because mandarin entropy is probably not as high as Voynichese (no statistics on that but Chinese is quite simple one consonant followed by any vowel forms a unit and there are not many limitations like we see in the VMS but I could be wrong).