[Article] New proposed solution

[-JKP-]

I read through it quickly.

I wouldn't discount the possibility of the underlying language being from that part of the world or that the VMS might be in a language with the kind of history described (in which several sounds came to be represented by one glyph), but I'm not convinced about the similarity in the Pahlavi glyphs to VMS glyphs shown in the chart. I think the similarities are superficial (any character based on loops, lines, and c-curves is going to have analogies in other alphabets).

Every example-glyph listed in the chart has a common Latin character, ligature, or abbreviation that resembles the Voynich glyphs more closely than the proposed Pahlavi glyph (in fact, most of the VMS shapes are identical to Latin-based shapes without having to rotate them, or move the crossbar from the bottom to the top, whereas the Pahlavi examples are only somewhat similar and a few of them not-all-that-similar).

As for the "9" shape in VMS (as well as the "P" shape), there are analogies in many different scripts... these two are particularly common shapes. What is important about the "9" shape in Voynichese, however, is that it completely mimics the placement conventions for this shape in Latin script, such that the similarity goes beyond shape alone.