I'm going to take a crack at this just to try. (Thanks to Risla for suggesting it on Discord as I hadn't previously seen it.)
Function words tend to be a single syllable, and we know dots are word boundaries, so let us look at single-syllable glyphs. The ten most common words in English text, in order, are
the,
be,
to,
of,
and,
a,
in,
that,
have, and
I. We'll ignore
be and
have and just look at the other eight, since they don't inflect. With a small sample text like this we probably can't assume the order will hold--indeed we would expect
I to be in probably the top six (there's a tie for each of fourth and fifth place).
In fact, let's just take a look at the top seven. Two of them appear to be variants of each other: a2b has no underline and a2v does. 'Capital gamma' isn't in the frequency list for some reason, even though it's quite common, so let's add it (the first character in the entire codex). One possibility is <in> and <an>--except <an> shouldn't appear often enough to be in the top ten. <The> and <that>?
I suspect that the 'accent mark' appearing above a character is perhaps just that. We know it has a variant in the form of an ascender, and all sufficiently long words do seem to have one...it's also very often on the first syllable, and most basic English words get initial stress.
Is there a null initial? If so we would expect it at the beginning of longer words but not in the middle.
Short vertical bar does not appear on its own, but it does appear in the center of longer words.
"6" often appears after another short word. That indicates to me it is likely one of the articles--either 'the' or 'a'. On the other hand--
"6", "6ב", and "ב" are all words. "In," "into", and "to", perhaps? There's also "cב", which...is probably not 'unto', this isn't the Bible; "onto"? Whatever "c" is, it also appears in "c
ʟ".
(Is "c
ʟ" 'today'? That would be sensible, but then we need "ב" to be something quite different.)
