25-08-2026, 07:01 AM
Taking this opportunity, I would like to reiterate the main similarity between Roman numerals and Voynichese.
The Roman numeral system itself has strict positional rules, according to which IV = 4, VII = 7, but IIV = nonsense.
A similar detail is present in the VMS text, and to explain it, I don’t need to resort to slot grammar. Simple examples: daiin = iinda, cthodol = dolctho, cthy = ycth. As you can see, in the second case, we end up with a non‑existent word. That is, this is the most basic rule of Voynichese — the letters must be arranged in a certain order to form a word.
However, the VMS alphabet is much larger than the basic set of Roman numerals. This means that some sequences are encrypted in a non‑standard way (as in the mini‑cipher: IX = or/ol, but IV = ok/ot), and some may change their spelling depending on their position in a string or word (for example, let’s assume that cthodol = XXXVIX. Four identical symbols are encrypted differently).
The Roman numeral system itself has strict positional rules, according to which IV = 4, VII = 7, but IIV = nonsense.
A similar detail is present in the VMS text, and to explain it, I don’t need to resort to slot grammar. Simple examples: daiin = iinda, cthodol = dolctho, cthy = ycth. As you can see, in the second case, we end up with a non‑existent word. That is, this is the most basic rule of Voynichese — the letters must be arranged in a certain order to form a word.
However, the VMS alphabet is much larger than the basic set of Roman numerals. This means that some sequences are encrypted in a non‑standard way (as in the mini‑cipher: IX = or/ol, but IV = ok/ot), and some may change their spelling depending on their position in a string or word (for example, let’s assume that cthodol = XXXVIX. Four identical symbols are encrypted differently).