Re: VMs: 1-2-3 eliminate me!

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 24 Feb 2003 2:49 am, Jacques Guy wrote:
> 2/23/03 9:08:34 PM, "Larry Roux" <lroux@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >The most promising group of glyphs to look at for this were
> >EVA: l, ol, lo, lol - in order to fit in a single key
> >replacement strategy the letters must fit at least all
> >4 of those combinations.
> >
> >I assume that one of the characters l or o must be a vowel.
> >I also assume that it must be the "l" as it appears alone
> >and I cannot think of any languages that use a consonant as
> >a single character word (please correct me if I am wrong!)
>
> These Russian prepositions: k, s, v
>
> > o ol lo lol
> > = == == ===
> > a ab ba aba
>
> About ten years ago I applied Sukhotin's vowel algorithm
> recursively on a Voynich sample. EVA <o> came as a vowel,
> and so did <ol>. That suggested to me that <o> = "o" and
> <l> = "u". It's buried somewhere in the archive, towards
> the very beginning.

I repeated this (but not recursively) to a few other texts and V-alphabets.
CURVA and GAVA are two agglomerated versions of EVA. If anybody wants the 
Bitrans translation files, let me know.
(use a fixed width font to see the columns aligned).
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Language		characters 	Vowels
English			21360		e,a,o,i,u,y
Latin			22608		e,i,a,u,o,y
English + '		21397		e,a,o,i,u,y,'
dain daiin Latin	23726		i,e,d,o,f,y,h

EVA			32000+		o,c,a,y,n,e,s,g
CURVA			31582		o,y,a,e,Ee,p,g
GAVA			24508		o,y,a,e,Ee,g
FSG			26967		o,y,a,e,Z,g,u
Currier			26134		o,y,a,e,g,u
Frogguy			32000+		e,o,a,y,p,n,j,g
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Cheers,

Gabriel



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