27-09-2026, 06:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 27-09-2026, 06:42 AM by Jorge_Stolfi.)
(26-09-2026, 05:20 PM)RadioFM wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The fact of the matter is there's no apparent grammar in Voynichese, ... there's kind of enough evidence that points to gibberish as well.
There is a language out there that has none of the inflections seen in "European" languages: not for gender, number, case, mood, tense, for augmentatives and diminutives, for superlatives and comparatives, etc. It has no articles or demonstrative pronouns, and rarely uses prepositions and conjunctions, including "and". It does not even have a copula (like the verb "to be" in English). And, unlike Indo-European languages, it does not divide its lexicon into disjoint classes of nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. And it has no suffixes or prefixes to make derived words (like "writer" from "write"), or to change their syntactic class (like "slowly" from "slow").
The Jesuits who set out to write tutorials for that language in the 1600s even claimed that "it had no grammar." Which is not true -- but the grammar is subtle, not visible to the sort of statistics that can reveal it in "European" languages.
All the best, --stolfi