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(8 hours ago)pjburkshire wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.A question for all you Linguistics experts out there: Is it reasonable to think that the scribes who created the Voynich Manuscript sometimes used the EVA "l" ( l ) to mean the "L" sound and sometimes to mean the "R" sound?
I believe it is much more likely that the letter l/L was used for the sounds L and u, since in in some Slavic dialects l was pronounced as w (Polish ł ). While it is true that some people, particularly children, had difficulty pronouncing r, the R and L stood for different sounds and can be found in different suffixes.
By the way, you are forgetting that Czech language had already several books written in Latin letters by the 15th century and Huss invented only a diacritic markers for the sounds č, š, ž. They used German writing convention, but they also used g for the j sound, like gest-yest -jest (I). This g letterform looks a lot like Voynich 9-like y.
Also, the closest language to old Czech and Moravian was medieval Slovenian. Like Czech, Slovenians use q, x, f only in foreign words, and for the sound g the sound h was used in some dialects. Many Czeck monks fled to Slovenia during the Hussite war. One of the first Slovenian documents written in Latin letters - the Stična manuscript - was written by a Czech monk in 1428.