ReneZ > 04-02-2016, 01:06 PM
-Job- > 04-02-2016, 05:57 PM
(04-02-2016, 01:06 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Thanks, that's a very useful overview!
Are the percentages computed over word tokens or word types? I.e.: if qokal appears 10 times, does it count for 10 or for one?
ReneZ > 04-02-2016, 06:14 PM
Emma May Smith > 04-02-2016, 08:09 PM
(04-02-2016, 10:56 AM)-Job- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....What are your thoughts on the issue in terms of sound assignments? Were [r] the sound /n/, [m] could conceivably be /ng/. This would explain 1) its existence almost exclusively at the end of words, 2) its apparent variability with /n/, and 3) the similarity of the characters (assuming that the script was devised with the goal of showing such relationships). Naturally, this would force [l] to be /m/.
Given that the glyphs for "m" and "r" are so similar, it's possible that some of these pairs represent the same character.
In any case, if they are in fact different characters, we can at least rule out some vowel/consonant assignments.
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-Job- > 05-02-2016, 10:22 AM
(04-02-2016, 08:09 PM)Emma May Smith Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Job, your statistics are very interesting. For the letter replacements in other languages, were these the highest %ages that were found, or a random selection?
(04-02-2016, 08:09 PM)Emma May Smith Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.But, even so, we're still measuring words that occur not possible words. Any language with a relatively complex syllable structure will have many gaps - syllables that are phonologically acceptable but not in use. We know Voynich words have little structural variety. Could your tests be run on Pinyin?
Emma May Smith > 05-02-2016, 06:28 PM
Sam G > 12-02-2016, 01:11 PM
nickpelling > 12-02-2016, 05:50 PM
-Job- > 18-02-2016, 05:41 AM
(12-02-2016, 05:50 PM)nickpelling Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.To my eyes, though, these are merely substitutions within the Voynichese's cover text, where many of the plaintext letters and numbers are enciphered as verbose groups, e.g. or / ol / ar / al.
ReneZ > 18-02-2016, 09:39 AM