Question about WW2 radio codes

[ReneZ]

The problem is that that there are countless Asian languages, and the only good reason why they are of interest for the Voynich MS is the word-internal structure of "Voynichese" words.

Some (not all) Asian languages do something similar. Modern Mandarin is a good example, but it's not the only one, and other Asian languages that could be classified as "Chinese" and have such a word structure are completely different from Mandarin. Teochew may be  a good example.

From what I have seen of Mongolian, it does not seem to have much of a word structure, but I could be wrong there.
Turkic languages seem to have no obvious word structure.


This doesn't mean that the base language of the Voynich MS cannot be Turkic, but one has to keep the logic in mind.

Much simplified:
The word structure is either primarily a feature of the source language directly, or it has been introduced by the  'processing' (encryption or whatever) of a text without such a word structure.

In the first case, it is worth looking at such languages (e.g. Asian) even if there isn't yet a good explanation how such a language got into this MS.

In the second case, there is no reason to prefer Turkic over Latin (or vice versa), because the 'processing' would work similarly on all languages without a word structure. Here, we haven't yet a good explanation how such processing would work.

The term 'processing' should really be understood in its most general way. "Writing with abbreviations" (as per Helmut Winkler's proposal) should be seen as one possible form of "processing".

P.S.:
In summary, we are without a good explanation either way.
But we knew that.