A random language upon which to experiment

[DonaldFisk]

Why are you going for a tiny minority of European dialect (and yes it's a good thought but...) when you have not as far as I can tell ruled out ( for a 1"1 substitution in natural language) the big elephants in the room ie viz (Molesworth!) Mandarin, Mongolese, Hindi?

"The World Wonders"! -  indeed.

Think about it...I have not seen a single mention or consideration of Mongolese on this site ever.

I would love to see what Emma May Smith says of this, because she could, probably and rationally, rule all  this out a priori. And I would go with that, because she would be rational.

Rule these 3  out - then we can all probably move onto considering code/cipher but not before.

These 3 languages are not my pet theory, but just:- they need to be ruled out properly IMHO.

I wasn't suggesting that the Voynich Manuscript might be written in Georgian.   I'm suggesting that you could use Georgian (or any other language you don't know) as a testing ground for ideas.   Myself and several others have suggested that the Voynich Manuscript is meaningless.   Can we show that it lacks a property present in Georgian text?   Alternatively, what properties of Georgian show it's a real language?

I have in fact examined Georgian, here: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..   This is quite a good way of identifying alphabetic languages, as the position of a glyph on the plot is determined by the frequency of the letters which follow it.   It's also immune to simple substitution encipherment.   I have also more recently plotted Pinyin (i.e. Romanized Mandarin) text and Latin text with long and short vowels indicated, but have yet to add this. They're both closer to the Voynich Manuscript plot than those of the other languages I've examined, but nowhere near close enough to suggest a match.   (In any case, the payoff is that I can now display non-ASCII characters in X11 windows: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..)

If anyone can provide me with text (a few pages will do) in a language they think Voynichese might be related to, along with a list of glyphs (letters or groups of letters which could be considered phonetic units, like "a" or "ee", or "th" in English), I can analyse it and generate a PCA glyph plot.   Alternatively, if anyone can suggest alternative EVA glyphs, I can reanalyse the VMS.