Atoms and elements of the Voynichese alphabet
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(15-06-2026, 08:26 PM)Mauro wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If 'in', 'iin', 'ir', 'iir', then why not 'im', 'iim', 'ig', 'il', 'iil', 'is', 'iis', 'ik', 'iik' etc.?

Maybe, why not?

But the main differences are:
- in and iin appear rather often in VMS; mostly, but not exclusively in an end position. The are following very often some "a", but there are some exceptions also. They never show up stand-alone. 
n is functioning as stand-alone letter in columns and main text. 
So I see in and iin as combined, but as new characters with an own "value", calling it element of the basic VMS alphabet.

- nearly the same for "ii"

- ir and iir are technically combinations of r with i and ii. I wouldn't have considered these as atoms or elements, but since air has a fixed stand-alone meaning and use, I took these as values of their own also into the table; they appear also in main texts sometimes without an "a", but remain as redframed second-class letters in my table.

- why not im, iim, ig, il, iil, is, iis, ik, iik ? 
I understand those strings as combinations; did not see a stand-alone usage yet, and not a very high rate of use within text. (may call those 'molecules', if you want to). Finally, all Vords are combinations of basic alphabetical elements: I tried to concentrate and condense those latter ones here.
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RE: Atoms and elements of the Voynichese alphabet - by Stefan Wirtz_2 - 16-06-2026, 12:34 PM

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