In this post I'll look at similarities between high-frequency qok- words in Currier B and high-frequency qu- words in Latin.
1. Textual Frequency
The prefix qu- is the most frequent two-letter prefix in the Latin ISE corpus, and the prefix qok- is the most frequent three-letter prefix in Currier B.
2. Zipf Rank
The most frequent qok- words in Currier B occupy similar Zipf ranks to the most frequent qu- words in Latin (though the Currier B words have a tendency to have lower Zipf ranks).
3. Reduplication
Some of the qu- words in Latin may be reduplicated, as may some of the qok- words in Currier B:
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