Atoms and elements of the Voynichese alphabet

[Jorge_Stolfi]

A bit surprising, "air" appears here between the line of single letters; most people consider this as a combination of up to 3 different Voynichese characters a, i and r,  but we have to face here the fact of "air" being some "atomistic", stand-alone sign. It appears also (very rarely) in the main text.

I believe that every ending ir is a rather common error by the Scribe, caused by him mis-reading an in in the Author's sloppy handwriting as r.  (But not every r is such a "quillo"!) 

That would explain why the ending is is quite rare, while ir is quite common and r and s are otherwise similar: because ien, unlike iin, is not a valid ending.

Most people think of CFe, CPe, CTe, CKe, ee, eee, ii, in, ir, iin, iir also being combined characters [...] But can there be even more?

In my view a single e is a modifier that can follow k, t, Ch, Sh, ee, CTh, CKh, CPh, and CFh (but not p and f or any other letter), turning those nine letters into nine additional ones: ke, te, Che, She, eee, CThe, etc. 

On the other hand I believe that p and f are not distinct letters, but only ornate versions of other letters or digraphs -- sort of like our capital letters, but used in rather different ways.

And ee may be just a lazy version of Ch with the ligature omitted (like a Latin "i" missing the dot).

And CTHh, CKHh etc are CThe, CKhe etc with an accidentally over extended ligature line.

And m is a Scribal abbreviation for iin (and maybe for in too). 

And b, u, g are not distinct letters, but merely malformed versions of other letters.  Ditto for Ih,IKh etc, and any other i that is not in an in or iin or iiin.

And q or qo is not a letter, but a symbol that means "and" -- like English "&" but with the grammar of Arabic "wa-".

So my proposal for the Voynichese alphabet is

a   o   y    d   l   r   s 
Ch   Sh   ee   Che   She   eee
k   t   ke   te
CKh   CTh   CThe   CKHe
n   in   iin   iiin(?)

Those in the last row can occur only at the end of a word.  There are many other restrictions but not worth mentioning now.

All the best, --stolfi