Re: Evolution - was VMs: Inks and retouching

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,
On Sunday 01 August 2004 22:07, John Grove wrote:
> 	Now, although there are a couple of stand-alone 'i' endings without a
> formal end-stroke, I'm willing for now to consider that an 'i' does not
> exist by itself. It is always part of the following character. This isn't a
> fact - it's an assumption on my part. So...

I understand, but one of the signatures in folio 1r reads <ydaraishy>
I haven't done a triplet count yet., so I cannot say how common is <i> on its 
own.

> The 'n' might always require an 'a' to start it off - I
> haven't checked, but I don't recall any 'n' that isn't preceded by an 'a'.
> EVA 'r' doesn't follow the same rule as eva 'n' though as there are plenty
> of 'chor' type words.

Here are the duplet counts with something-<n>.
"_" denotes a space, and "*" unreadable.

in 6058
an 119
on 9
en 7
_n 4
*n 2
---

and here those <n>-something.
n_  6121
ny 25
no 21
na 15
nd 10
nl 3
ng 2
ne 1
sn 1
nc 1
ni 1
---

There is little doubt that the <in> high count is related to the <n_> high 
count (i.e. the most common triplet must be <in_>).

So although this still seems to agree with what you say (<in> and <an> are the 
most common) other combinations are found as well.
Interestingly, there are no <nn>

Cheers,

Gabriel



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