VMs: Re: Question from a newbie

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

	Welcome!

Kevin Gillette wrote:
> 
> Please forgive what must be an ancient question, but I haven't availed
> myself of any archived messages (if indeed, such an archive exists - ???) to
> see if it has been answered already. 

	Archives do indeed exist.  They are currently at:

http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/mirror/reeds/vmail.html

> The question is this:  Has any thought
> been given to the prospect that the 'codons' or glyphs represent a syllabary
> rather than an alphabet?  This could explain the terseness of many of the
> 'words.'  I apologize in advance if this question has been thoroughly vetted
> already.

	I don't recall anyone's suggesting that.  The Voynich
alphabet, as we've
understood it, we think has about 23 'real' characters,
plus ligature forms, rare
characters, etc.  That would be too few for a
syllabary.  However, as you can see
from recent list traffic, we're currently questioning
this understanding and that
number.

Dennis
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