Has anyone questioned the letter assumption?
Smashed > 07-03-2025, 07:22 AM
In most writings systems most characters represent one or more phonemes.
Once I fully got my head around the idiosyncrasies of the Voynich language one of my first thoughts was that it could be that what are commonly taken to be words in fact are either individual phonemes or syllables and that the "letters" are describing qualities of the sound. The idea would be something like Hangul if the characters were separated out or IPA if instead of a unique symbol you referenced the position on the chart for every phoneme (not literally either but that kind of idea).
This solves the limited number of glyphs issue because there are only so many different qualities a phoneme or syllable can have.
It solves the issue of certain glyphs only apearing at the beginning or ends of words. There are certain properties that a sound can only have one of a few options for.
With this you would expect shorter "words" and you see that.
This hypothesis isn't perfect but it has alot of good sides. Has anyone done any research in this vain?