27-08-2026, 10:29 AM
(27-08-2026, 03:03 AM)BessAgritianin wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.My hypothesis to share with the forum is that EVA "qo" is a single, indivisible character- used mainly as prefix.
My hunch is that "qo" is not a phonetic digram, but a symbol for "and", like our "&"; which is used like the Arabic "wa-" or Hebrew "ve-". That is, in Voynichese "qo" is a prefix not a separate word, and to say "A, B, C, and D" you write "A qoB qoC qoD".
That would not imply that Voynichese is Arabic or Hebrew (or Ge'ez), but may indicate that the Author's native language was Arabic or Hebrew, and thus he inserted the "qo-" on his own in conjunctive phrases because otherwise they would be confusing or "sound wrong" to him.
All the best, --stolfi
PS. The EVA font disappeared from the font menu after the last site update, and is still missing. I tried "deep reload" with no effect.