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(09-09-2016, 11:04 PM)ThomasCoon wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(09-09-2016, 03:46 PM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(09-09-2016, 02:43 PM)ThomasCoon wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.1) If you are searching for a natural language for Voynichese and believe the VMS spaces are true, you are almost certainly limited to agglutinative and polysynthetic languages because of the "morphology" of Voynich words (see the <qot> forms). This eliminates most of the languages in Europe.
I see your point. This seems to be consistent with where some linguistic research about the ms is going.

Interesting, Marco; could you tell me which researchers think this?

Hi Thomas,
I was mainly thinking of Stephen Bax, who also is of the opinion that European languages are not good candidates for Voynichese; he also You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that a phenomenon like the common EVA:o- prefix might be an agglutinating article analogue to the Arabic al- and that the prefix EVA:y- might function as an agglutinating disjunction.

But for strictly polysynthetic languages, one also thinks of Tucker and Talbert's Nahuatl theory (of which I know very little).