Re: VMs: What are Neal keys

["john stojko" <oko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nothing wrong with assumption.

Long time ago I made my first alphabet table similar to EVA. I study all the
VM letters and than began to generate my second alphabet table. But the
biggest problem I had with the letters known in VMs org. as Gallows. After
many assumptions and alphabet tables' revisions I finely arrived at my last
revision.

By use of my alphabet and knowledge of Ukrainian language, one can read and
understand the whole VMs.

Please note; the VMs alphabet consists of consonants only.

Re: to BASIC EVA CHARACTERS, below I list EVA in English and my alphabet.



Basic Eva in English         My alphabet



          A                                   B

          B or N                           J or I (i with double dot)

          C                                  Fragment, is part of other VM
letter.

          D                                  K or Kh

          E                                  N

          F                                  Ts or Tsh (ch)

         G                                   Double letter K and S or Sh

         H                                  Fragment, is part of other VM
letter.

         I                                    Z

         J                                    Double letter ZL

        K                                   T

        L                                    L

       M                                    Double letter ZL (same as EVA j)

       O                                   W or V

       P                                    STs or ShCh

      Q                                    S

      R                                     R

      S                                     D

     T                                     ST or ShT

     U                                     double letter BJ

     V                                    number (1?) assumed to be

     X                                    number (7?) assumed to be



>From table known as DOODES

262
number

263
number

>From table Dee-like number

9
S or Sh

Please note; in the above table letter M and P are missing.

                    The letters are given in my Home Page.

http://home.att.net/~oko/home.htm



John



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: VMs: What are Neal keys


> >On the first line of text (and typically about 60%-70% along that line)
on
> >many pages, you can often find an accentuated pair of gallows (normally
> >p-gallows) containing a text sequence - these are Neal keys
>
> >
> >Philip Neal first pointed these out to me a few years ago, so I'd look
for
> >a proper description from him - AFAIK he was the first to notice them
> >(hence their name), but I don't know if he's undertaken a systematic
check
> >for them since the sidfiles arrived.
>
> What I pointed out is that you seldom get a Voynich word
> which ends in a gallows character or, what amounts to the
> same thing, a gallows character followed by a space. The few
> cases where it happens tend to occur rather more than half
> way across the first line of a page. I have statistics somewhere,
> based on the Takehashi transcription.
>
> I am not committed to the idea that such gallows end a
> key sequence though it is a plausible suggestion (also
> the term 'Neal keys' was not coined by me). What I do
> think is that these gallows are evidence that the text
> displays a kind of periodicity above the level of individual
> words.
>
> Philip Neal
>
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