Re: VMs: Line and paragraph as structural unit (Noise or data ?)

[Mart Vabar <mesinik@xxxxxx>]

On Sun, 25 May 2003, Nick Pelling wrote:
> At 05:05 25/05/2003 +1000, Jacques Guy wrote (in reply to Philip Neal):
> 
> >If you rummage through the archives, you will find very old
> >posts from me where I opine that <y> is an unstressed,
> >undifferentiated vowel, a schwa in other words.




when looking, how Voynichese "Y" was actually written, I thought it could be
related with "J" (12.letter) in futhark - this one you see here par example:
http://www.otherwonders.com/swiftpaws/pagan/futhark-letters.gif
"J" in futhark (AFAIK) was probably pronounced something like Y or U-umlaut

MV


PS.
The early Rus (Russia, speaking mostly other than slavic languages), was
created and reigned by skandinavians and it streched from Baltic to Black Sea 
and the Kaspian.

PPS.
If its genuine and originates from southeast of Europe (probably the last 
"cultural window" between big religions - see, VMS isn't about them too much), 
then it has to be very old - because 800 years ago or so everybody in these 
territories, incl. wild men here in the north, used cyrillic letters - look:
http://heninen.net/koivunkirja/english.htm
if you want to taste a birch bark txt...

PPPS.
You see how much less could the labyrinth be, if Yale had told us about possible 
physical tests - when it was written and where (with help of anther dust you 
can say a lot about the place).

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