Re: Antoine Casanova's research

[Dennis <ixohoxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jorge Stolfi wrote:

>   In my view, the most significant feature of Antoine's substitution
>   patterns is that the first letter of a Voynichese word seem to have
>   more "inflectional freedom", while the final letters are relatively
>   invariant. These patterns are precisely oposite to what we would
>   expect to see in Indo-European languages (at least Romance and
>   Germanic), where grammatical inflection usually modifies letters
>   near the end of the word.

	But the Bantu languages put inflectional  morphemes at
the beginning.  Hmmm.  When concocting an African
theory of the VMs, I considered using Ibn Battuta as
the one bringing the VMs back to the Mediterranean
world.  However, Swahili, if written at all, was
written in Arabic characters, which does not agree with
the clear Romance basis of Voynichese characters.  I
don't think so...

Dennis