Voynichese: a forgotten turkic-aramaic-persian language?

[Emma May Smith]

Indeed. Unless you have overwhelming proof that the text must be written in a given language, it is best to approach without a specific language in mind. Otherwise you risk fitting the text to the language, rather than the language to the text.

As you say, you need to figure out something from the known statistics of the text first. I'm constantly amazed how many attempted solutions there are compared with actual discussions on textual characteristics. Discussions of very specific aspects of the text should be wildly more common than attempted solutions.