A key to understand the VMS

[-JKP-]

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.

I don't agree with this.  It's true that attempts to connect the VMS to known languages have all failed miserably, but that really just indicates that it's written in some otherwise unknown language.

On the subject of unknown languages... I spent a couple of years looking into extinct languages (I was surprised there were so many and, as an aside, also found out there's a small region in India where more than 100 different languages/dialects are spoken).


I discovered two important things about extinct languages...

One is that quite a number were recorded before they completely disappeared (many of these extinctions are recent), enough to get a sense of how they function and even if the language is no longer spoken as a first language (such as Livonian), sometimes it is still taught in universities as a second language. An "extinct" language is not always a dead language.

The second is that extinct languages almost always have commonalities with surrounding languages (or the languages from which they are derived if it's the language of a nomadic tribe). While this may seem obvious, I get the feeling that some people think extinct languages are exotic and inscrutable, but that is not usually the case. Latin hasn't been spoken for centuries, but we still use it. It is learned, read, written, and the roots of Latin are obvious in languages like French, Italian, Spanish and particularly Romanian.

One doesn't have to know a specific language to get some sense of how it works. There are only so many ways to put together things and actions and languages are predominantly about things and actions, and whatever system is in place for discussing things and actions has to be internally consistent or how can the language be learned and used?


I am skeptical that an unknown language would depart so dramatically from known languages in terms of structure.