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• RE: Voynich Reconsidered

  dfs346 > 29-06-2026, 06:39 AM

  (28-06-2026, 11:08 PM)tavie Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'm not following what you mean by "substrate languages"

  
  Dear Tavie, I used the term "substrate languages" to refer to the languages of the presumed precursor documents. For clarity,  I have chsnged the term to "precursor languages".

• RE: Voynich Reconsidered

  dfs346 > 24-07-2026, 02:38 PM

  The "L-zero" glyphs and the Voynich alphabet:
  
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• RE: Voynich Reconsidered

  dfs346 > 31-07-2026, 09:21 PM

  The L-zero transliterations ... and the five most promising precursor languages
  
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• RE: Voynich Reconsidered

  Jorge_Stolfi > 31-07-2026, 10:05 PM

  (28-06-2026, 07:24 PM)dfs346 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view."Targeting the precursor languages" on SubStack:
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  Quote:My third assumption is the precursor languages are more likely than not to be languages that were written in Europe during the fifteenth century.  This assumption follows from the radiocarbon dating of samples of the Voynich vellum to the fourteenth or early fifteenth century; and from Wilfrid Voynich’s assertion that he had discovered the manuscript in southern Europe.

  
  And that is where everybody got lost down the wrong path.  Sigh.
  
  Those facts are undisputed, but that  assumption does not follow at all from them.  
  
  The right approach would have been, "let's determine the properties of Voynichese, and then let's look for languages that have similar properties, modulo the original alphabet and spelling system."
  
  All the best, --stolfi
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