Word inflections in the Voynich

[Adam McLean <alchemy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jorge Stolfi wrote:

>But the main limitation I see in Antoine's method is that he considers
 >the absolute position of each letter in the word to be a significant
 >parameter for statistical analysis. I.e., he assumes implicitly that
 >an n-letter word contains exactly n "inflectional", slots, each each
 >of them containing exactly one letter. 


I wonder if the core-mantle-crust perspective on the Voynich word
structure might give us a test through "inflections" of whether the
Voynich might be a special way of writing Latin (or Greek).

If this were Latin encoded by some special scheme, we might 
expect to find :

An identifier of word type - adjective, noun, verb 
An identifier of the Latin word root
An identifier for the Latin word inflection
with possible other things encoded - gender, case, tense

In Latin the number of inflections are high though surely less than
the number of word roots for the vocabulary needed in a treatise 
with such seemingly diverse sections as the Voynich. 
I think there are just over 50 noun inflections in Latin covering all the 
declensions. There are well over 200 verb inflections, while 
adjectives have about 70 inflections. These could be substantially 
pruned by missing out various underused forms.

Can any test be made of the Voynich word set which might find
some component of words which incorporates such a large number of
inflections ?

Has anyone made an attempt to see if the Voynich incorporates in
some way the inflections of a highly inflected language such as 
Latin or Greek?


Adam McLean




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