-JKP- > 25-02-2019, 12:19 AM
ChenZheChina > 26-02-2019, 03:56 AM
(22-02-2019, 11:12 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.…
Hebrew has a lot of root words (in which the only difference between related words is the vowels or one character), so in that respect it's tantalizing to think the repetitious character of the VMS might be an abjad based on a system of root words with the vowels omitted, but Hebrew is NOT rigidly positional like the VMS—the letters move around within words much more than in Voynichese. Maybe the VMS is some sort of abjad (perhaps a synthetic abjad), it's closer to Hebrew structure than many languages, but... when you look at glyph position, then the differences loom large (I'm sure you already know this, but I'm describing my thinking process at the time).
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-JKP- > 26-02-2019, 05:06 AM
Koen G > 26-02-2019, 07:23 AM
ChenZheChina > 26-02-2019, 08:12 AM
(26-02-2019, 05:06 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.A synthetic language is one that is made up, an invented language (usually one that works according to a set of rules).
(26-02-2019, 07:23 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Synthetic languages put a lot of grammar inside of the word, instead of chopping them up.
-JKP- > 26-02-2019, 09:54 AM
MarcoP > 26-02-2019, 09:55 AM
(26-02-2019, 07:23 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So a synthetic abjad is a language that's written with omission of vowels, and with lots of meaning that goes inside the main word. It probably uses cases, extensive conjugation, no personal pronouns etc.
Quote:I have to insist again and again, the difference between the script and the language is a really important one, because it could be that the underlying language is one that is known to us, but what stops us from getting there is just the script that's lying above it. And this is an element of the research which many people just don't seem to get. Even in recent discussions on the internet you get people confusing the issues of the script and language.
-JKP- > 26-02-2019, 10:07 AM
Stephen Bax Wrote:I have to insist again and again, the difference between the script and the language is a really important one, because it could be that the underlying language is one that is known to us, but what stops us from getting there is just the script that's lying above it.
-JKP- > 26-02-2019, 10:14 AM
Koen G > 26-02-2019, 10:16 AM