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• RE: Why and how the text could be Bavarian

  JoJo_Jost > Yesterday, 01:42 PM

  Okay, let's continue—it's getting more interesting.
  
  Assume the basic structure: VCCV. We're at the second C in VCCV,
  so at the first consonant in the sequence.
  
  Apparently, the Core contain two different encodings. We’re familiar with the “e” family, but the “o” and “a” families also shape the pattern of the second half of the Core. We’ll get to that later. For now, we’re only concerned with the first C—that is, what comes before these families.
  
  And here there’s a peculiarity I didn’t anticipate myself. It seems as though the first consonants are subject to a simple substitution cipher. (No, just the first consonants—by no means the entire VMS!) Regarding the frequency comparison with MHD:
  
  (The first C was tested in comparison with the consonant endings of the words in the MHD texts (although the first C does not appear only at the end of words—but given the amount of data, this still provides a clear picture). Note that the natural word boundary lies between the first C and the second C—so the first C is always at the end of the syllable or the word.)
  
  Here is the table:
     
  
  And the graph:
     
  
  Very interesting and astonishing. Could it really be that simple? But I can’t say yet whether this is a possible solution. It would be very premature to conclude that, and as long as I haven’t solved the second C—which likely encompasses the consonant clusters at the beginning of words—it’s impossible to verify.
  
  I checked how many words in Middle High German end with one consonant: 81.45%—that’s a lot, and it fits perfectly with the behavior of the first C in the VMS and to this idea.
  
  But there’s something else that’s more than astonishing in this context:
  
  Take a look at the coverage. In both the VMS and the MHG texts, the first 10 letters cover 94.xx percent of the letters in these positions!
  
  
     
     
  
  I’ve also made progress with the vowels; more on that later.
  
  I’m naturally very curious to see if this will just turn out to be another round of Bullshit Bingo , or if there’s actually something substantial here....
  
  Current unsolved problems:
  - Determine vowels more precisely
  - Decode the second C (quite difficult)
  - Assign the aiin family (very difficult)
  
  PS Important: this assignment is positional. It holds for this occurrence only and does not generalize to every instance of the glyph in the VMS.
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