A key to understand the VMS

[ReneZ]

Like I asked above: what other possibilities are there that can account for the evidence and that can actually be demonstrated to work/exist in practice?  Obviously it is easy to discount the significance of any number of language-like properties of the VMS text by claiming that some nonexistent, undemonstrated procedure could have also produced them.

The following symbols:  q  f  p  m  y   are demonstrably not to be identified with letters.

I would like to see the demonstration of this, especially in the case of q and y.  To oversimplify, I think f p m and g can probably be thought of as variant forms of other letters that occur in certain contexts, though there's much more that could be said about this.

No 'alternative' explanation than 'natural language' for the Voynich MS has ever been demonstrated successfully. but let's not forget at the same time that all attempts to demonstrate 'natural language' as the solution have failed quite miserably.

The other point does not really belong in this thread. It could be discussed elsewhere.

To come back to the topic, the network of similar words in the Voynich MS is clearly real, and there is no doubt that it originates from the 15th century.
It also exists in SE Asian languages, but that does not mean that the Voynich MS text represents such a language.

By the way there is a minor point about the use of the term 'syllable'. What is called a syllable in Mandarin Chinese is actually a self-standing word, and the two-syllable words are actually composite words. Other languages (e.g. the Mon language as suggested) are really not strictly monosyllabic, and have syllables that do not constitute words.