-JKP- > 03-05-2019, 01:35 AM
Koen G > 03-05-2019, 06:03 AM
Monica Yokubinas > 03-05-2019, 12:33 PM
(03-05-2019, 06:03 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This is one of those solutions with ridiculous amounts of freedom, producing garbage results.Actually the results have been very enlightening and disturbing when it comes to plant information and the 9 rosette folio.
Monica Yokubinas > 03-05-2019, 12:46 PM
(03-05-2019, 01:35 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view."The [Voynich] language is an agglutinative, phonetic form of defective Hebrew, and also uses some Greek words like yaya for grandmother."
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I don't agree that the Latin "-ris" shape (EVA-m) resembles Hebrew thav. It's completely different. Even if you mirror it, it's not similar.
I also don't agree that the minims look like shin. I've looked at many many Hebrew manuscripts and I've never seen shin written like "ain".
I also don't think VMS "a" looks like samekh. Even if you mirror it, it isn't really the same.
I don't think the long-cee looks anything like yod.
The figure-8 letter (EVA-d) doesn't look like the sample, either. It has a long straight stem. And normally this letter does not have a loop (and when it does, it's usually more triangular, like the old Phoenician letters).
What the shapes represent is another issue, but as for shape similarities, I don't find them particularly similar.
Ignoring shapes for a moment, and just looking at the glyph dynamics, the author has equated Hebrew gimel to EVA-y (9 shape) but it seems unlikely that gimel would occur so frequently at the ends of words, sometimes at the beginning, but almost never anywhere else in a word.
This is gimel: ג and some words with gimel where the letter is within the word:
בגדים אגוז מלך מגבת אנגלית אגודל
It's essentially a substitution code with subjective interpretation for individual "alchemical" glyphs.
-JKP- > 03-05-2019, 05:03 PM
Monica Yokubinas > 03-05-2019, 07:36 PM
(03-05-2019, 05:03 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hi, Monica, welcome to the forum,
If the EVA-y glyph y (which you have referred to as "gimel") is used to represent "of", then how is the "g" sound represented in the VMS text?
The g sound, in one form or another, exists in pretty much every language in that area (and pretty much all of Europe, as well).
Common_Man > 03-05-2019, 09:02 PM
-JKP- > 03-05-2019, 10:15 PM
-JKP- > 03-05-2019, 10:27 PM
Quote:Monica: "...like being able to eat the tuber/sweet potato of the bladder campion on 33r not just the leaves as a winter pot herb."
Monica Yokubinas > 03-05-2019, 10:39 PM
(03-05-2019, 09:02 PM)Common_Man Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It's very much possible that the EVA-y glyph y has some kindof double duty (may be the language has a single letter for 2 sounds and the position of the glyph in a word determines the sound to be used), and the native speakers will know it out of practise.. But this is as good as any other guess out there, and without some kindof system to check whether your results are real or just coincidence, nothing can be said about the proposed sound values..
Can you apply them to the folio 68 star labels and see if you can build up a big picture that makes sense?
Btw I was looking for online resources about Chagatai with little success, as I thought it could be a possible candidate, since the Empire extended to the Northwest of India, and thus can have Persian and Indic language influences..
Just go on with your translations, and post more information as you go..