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VMs: Re: Cyrilic



Hi Stefan,

The present day Cyrillic and VMs alphabet is not the same.
Both alphabets are designed to express Slavic language.
Visit my Home Page,
http://home.att.net/~oko/home.htm

you will find there deciphered VMs with respect to
Slavic language.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Urbanek" <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 4:57 AM
Subject: VMs: Cyrilic


> Hi,
>
> Has anyone tried to match voynich characters to cyrilic alphabet? Note
that
> cyrilic italics or hand written has different shapes for some characters
(most
> notable is cyrilic italics 'm' is 'T'). There are also some characters
that
> denote palatalisation of previous character (soft sign, hard sign),
therefore
> are not pronounced.
>
> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/cyrillic.htm
>
> Here you can see italics form (at the bottom half):
>
http://www.bitstream.com/font_rendering/products/dev_fonts/cyrillic/fontsamps/cyr_it_dutch.gif
>
> Matching to cylirics would mean, for example, that what in currently used
> voynich transcription is 't' (two parallel lines joined at the top with
two
> loops) would be 'p' when compared to cyrilic.
>
> If this was discussed already, can someone give me more pointers?
>
> Regards,
>
> Stefan
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