I only delved into the Voynich language in the beginning, before I shifted my focus to imagery entirely. I developed a reading of some glyphs based on a limited number of labels in the small-plants section. Since then I've learned a lot though, and I wouldn't insist on anything of this without re-evaluating everything thoroughly.
That said, some things I found pointed to the Indo-Iranian language family. In particular, I figured that some of the two-word labels could be explained this way. The first word would refer to the type of product gained from the plant: "wood of (tree type)", "juice of (fruit type)". These first words did appear to match appropriate Indo-Iranian roots, and the word order is also appropriate for this language family.
For example, the label on the left would point to a type of wood (dal, dol...). The one in the middle to a type of juice or sap (ros/ras). Note that the one on the right also starts with something like ros/ras, but here it's one word (which is a kind of variation I'm willing to accept before language standardization).
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One of the reasons why I let it rest for a while is that I suspect the VM script is kind of a visual approximation of a more fluent script with letters getting different forms depending on their position in the word. Well without going into too much detail, I'm afraid there might be a several-to-several relationship between glyph and sound, which makes our job nearly impossible. I'm hoping that one day our understanding of the imagery will be such that we can predict what the text should be and work from there.
That said, some things I found pointed to the Indo-Iranian language family. In particular, I figured that some of the two-word labels could be explained this way. The first word would refer to the type of product gained from the plant: "wood of (tree type)", "juice of (fruit type)". These first words did appear to match appropriate Indo-Iranian roots, and the word order is also appropriate for this language family.
For example, the label on the left would point to a type of wood (dal, dol...). The one in the middle to a type of juice or sap (ros/ras). Note that the one on the right also starts with something like ros/ras, but here it's one word (which is a kind of variation I'm willing to accept before language standardization).
One of the reasons why I let it rest for a while is that I suspect the VM script is kind of a visual approximation of a more fluent script with letters getting different forms depending on their position in the word. Well without going into too much detail, I'm afraid there might be a several-to-several relationship between glyph and sound, which makes our job nearly impossible. I'm hoping that one day our understanding of the imagery will be such that we can predict what the text should be and work from there.