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• Objective statistics about VMS text

  ThomasCoon > 17-12-2022, 01:16 AM

  Hello all, long time no see! 
  Please use this thread mainly to submit your objective (i.e. numbers-based) statistics about VMS glyphs, vords, and text.
  
  If we gather all the facts together, we may be able to reverse-engineer the process that generated them. (Please feel free to speculate about that here too.)
  
  Here are my statistics using Takahashi transcription:
  

  • <l> appears 10,518 times in the VMS. In 54% of occurrences (5693 cases) it appears before <o>, and about 30% of times (3091 cases) before <a>.
    So, 84% of the time that <l> appears in the VMS, it is either in an <al> or <ol> combination.
    
    
  • <r> appears 7456 times. In 3244 cases (43.5% of the time), it is in an <ar> combination, and in 2820 cases (37.8%) it appears in <or>.
    So, 81.3% of the time, <r> is either in an <ar> or <or> combination.
    
    
  • <y> appears 17,655 times. In 14,515 cases, it is word-final.
    So, 82.2% of the times that <y> appears in the VMS, it is word-final.
    
    
  • There are 36,137 vords (tokens) in the Takahashi transcription. There are 14,515 vords with a final <y>. 
    Therefore 40% of vords in the VMS end in <y>.
    
    
  • <d> appears 12,973 times. In 6834 cases (52.7% of the time), <d> is followed by <y>.
    
  • When <dy> appear together (6834 times), it is word-final 88.8% of the time (6071 times)
    
    
  • <k> appears 10,934 times, but in 6069 cases it is in the combination <ok>.
    So <k> is preceded by <o> 55.5% of the time.
    
    
  • <t> appears 6944 times in the VMS, but in 3856 cases it is in the combination <ot>.
    So <t> is preceded by <o> 55.5% of the time.
    
    
  • <q> appears 5423 times in the VMS, but in 5383 (99.3%) of cases it is word-initial.
    
    
  • <q> appears 5423 times in the VMS, but in 5290 (97.5%) of cases it is in the combination <qo>.
    
    
  • <qo> appears 5290 times in the entire VMS, but in 3116 (58.9%) times the next letter is <k>, and in 1130 cases (21%), the next letter is <t>.
    So 80% of the time that <qo> appears, it is in a <qok> or <qot> combination.
    
    

  • <ain>, <aiin> and <aiiin> appear word-initial over 500 times but are never once line-initial.
    

  
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• RE: Objective statistics about VMS text

  Ruby Novacna > 17-12-2022, 06:57 PM

  For EVA t it would be useful, in my opinion, to count how many times it appears between the two vowels.
  
  I realise that the majority of "consonant" glyphs appear between the two vowels, so this was a bad idea.

• RE: Objective statistics about VMS text

  Hermes777 > 17-12-2022, 08:48 PM

  Voynichese.com
  
  [k] = 10,845 instances
  [t] = 6,872
  [p] = 1620
  [f] = 499
  
  However, the distribution of these glyphs in the BENCHED form shows [t] to be anomalous:
  
  [ckh] = 907 instances
  [cth] = 945 
  [cph] = 217
  [cfh] = 74
  
  Proportionally, there are far more [cth] - or far fewer [ckh] - than we would expect.

• RE: Objective statistics about VMS text

  nablator > 18-12-2022, 10:28 AM

  (17-12-2022, 01:16 AM)ThomasCoon Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

  • <ain>, <aiin> and <aiiin> appear word-initial over 500 times but are never once line-initial.