The "gallows" characters

[-Job-]

Job, your statistics are very interesting. For the letter replacements in other languages, were these the highest %ages that were found, or a random selection?

The highest values (e.g. above 5%).

But, even so, we're still measuring words that occur not possible words. Any language with a relatively complex syllable structure will have many gaps - syllables that are phonologically acceptable but not in use. We know Voynich words have little structural variety. Could your tests be run on Pinyin?

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k replaced by g: 8/109 7.0%
m replaced by b: 11/166 7.0%
t replaced by d: 14/194 7.0%
ā replaced by à: 29/363 8.0%
ē replaced by à: 10/142 7.0%
ō replaced by ò: 9/105 9.0%
ǎ replaced by à: 25/326 8.0%

The character set was the following: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuwxyzàáèéìíòóùúāēěīōūǎǐǒǔǘǚǜ