Calgary engineer believes he's cracked the mysterious Voynich Manuscript

[Emma May Smith]

Very interesting. The first theory in a long time that I would like to know more about. It certainly pushes a lot of buttons for me, especially in the identified language.

Though I'm concerned on a couple of points. The first is the way the decipherment progressed. They said that they assigned the values to the first seven glyphs by comparing them to ancient scripts. This is very worrying as it relies on subjective judgement. If they are wrong then everything is wrong.

Secondly, some of the assignments are curious. For example, the glyph [m], which is strongly line final, is given the value /k/. Why would /k/ be line final? And [q] has the value /d/, but why is /d/ only word initial?

Here's a full list of glyph/value assignments that I can glean from the video:

[o] = /o/
[o] = /uç/ (This [o] is a variant with an open top.)
[y] = /u/
[a] = /ə/
[a] = /v/ (This [a] is a variant with an open bottom.)
[e] = /c/
[c] = /j/
[ch] = /ç/
[sh] = /çye/, /çyedi/, /çyedi/
[k] = /t/ (This [k] appears to have a flourish on the right foot.)
[k] = /l/
[t] = /b/ (It's unclear which glyph exactly this is meant to be.)
[d] = /s/
[l] = /p/
[l] = /x/
[r] = /r/
[i] = /i/
[ii] = /ii/ (also /gh/?)
[n] = /ng/
[in] = /in/
[iin] = /iin/, /m/
[m] = /k/ (Unclear is this is [m] or [g].)
[q] = /d/

Looking at this, I think it's obvious they're wrong.