Why and how the text could be Bavarian

[JoJo_Jost]

There would have to be some clarity to when a character is standalone and when it requires a pairing.

You can easily test this in this system.

If the first and last glyphs are part of a cross-vowel bigram, you can use a three-glyph token (VCV) to check whether the glyph in the middle is likely to be a standalone glyph or not.

The test checks: Of all the internal occurrences of an atom, how many can stand alone in this VCV form.

Important: I treat “aiin” as a single unit here, since it is highly unlikely that “aiin” is part of a bigram (though I’m not entirely sure about that either—but then again, what is ever certain in VMS?).

The assumption is that Gallows and o/a are independent. For Gallows, because they already look like ligatures (in part), and for o/a, because they often stand alone within tokens (Chol).

   

Results:

High single-core candidates:
ckh, cth, a, o, cph, k, t
It’s interesting that the bench-gallows—which are almost obviously ligatures—stand out so clearly.

With only 41 hits, cfh is statistically insignificant; p falls somewhere in the middle and is unlikely to be a single core, which is somewhat surprising.

Low / more likely to be bound components:
d, e, sh, f, ch, y


Regarding P: P is actually widely distributed throughout the text. In this system, P’s primary function is simply to indicate that a line begins with a consonant. However, I also believe that it serves other functions, particularly because lines beginning with P are, on average, significantly longer than others.

Important: There is a valid debate as to whether P and F are not two variants of the same glyph. At the very least, the context surrounding these glyphs is very similar.

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But this test also reveals something else: namely, that we can’t simply rely on a strict bigram count; glyphs clearly appear both as bigrams and individually. So the system is more complex, but it also explains why the VMS is so broad.

If I had described this complexity—which is probably easy to break down—from the start, the first post would have been very, very much longer .

But more on that later.