Re: VMs: Voynichese as an Abugida

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

	Hello, Kemosabe - from a chemo-savvy chemical 
engineer.  ;-)

Koontz John E wrote:

> I am wondering if anyone has looked at the Voynich ms. script as an
> abugida (alphasyllabary) or abjad (consonantal script)?  

	I find your analysis quite interesting!  (Where do the 
terms abugida and abjad come from, incidentally?)

	From time to time I've wondered whether Voynichese 
word divisions are not in fact syllable divisions. 
This could explain the short word length for a European 
language.

	French might be a good underlying language if this 
were the case, because French in its spoken form does 
not have clear word divisions.  I estimate that French 
might have ~500 fairly common syllables, although that 
is just a guess based on Louis XIV's Royal Cipher, 
which operated on syllables.  How would all this fit 
into your ideas?

Dennis

PS: Here is my website on some syllabic scripts, 
including Sequoyah's.

http://www.geocites.com/ctesibos/new-inv/


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