[Blog Post] Scribes of the Voynich Manuscript

[davidjackson]

There are many languages in which "q" occurs in numerous places in the word: "aqua" "cinque" "quinque" "pourquois" "bisque" (and others do not have "q").

In Spanish (or Portuguese):
aGua; cinKo, Quinze, porQue...
Neither modern Spanish, Portuguese nor French pronounce the qU sound
They use the direct Latin version of q/K... latin: nunquam; Old Spanish: nunqua; modern Spanish / Portuguese: nunca / nunca
In these languages, the qu version is almost always developed as a hard "K" or "Ca" sound.
NunCa; Ke; Kien; Cuando..... in general, it's ca, co, cu, ke, ki
But in medieval languages, q almost always takes after the Latin form, with little difference.