Updated PCA analysis of various languages

[Oocephalus]

I have now identified a language whose glyph PCA, and therefore presumably its phonetic properties, closely match those of Voynich Manuscript.   It is is obscure but geographically and historically plausible.   More details can be found at You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

Very interesting! I've also had the idea that it's a Northwest Caucasian language, based on the statistical investigations of Emma May Smith and others that suggested to me that there are only two "full" vowels in Voynichese, represented by EVA a (equivalent to y?) and o. Interestingly, during the time when the vellum was made, there was a Genoese trading post in Sukhumi (then called Sebastopolis), now the capital of Abkhazia. There were other trading posts elsewhere in the region. I found more about it You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., although I don't know how accurate this is, and the author of the site certainly has an agenda, he is trying to prove that the region was originally inhabited by Georgians and the Abkhazians immigrated later (this is a political issue, as the status of Abkhazia is currently internationally disputed). I remember that Diane also mentioned the city in the context of transmission of content from East to West.
However, while Abkhaz and other Northwest Caucasian languages have only two phonemic vowels, these are pronounced differently depending on the surrounding consonants. A non-native speaker unfamiliar with modern-day phonological theory would probably have written the words as he heard them, so he would have used more than two vowel symbols. So, a phonemic orthography using only two vowels would probably have been invented by a native speaker.
By the way,if you're looking for a larger Abkhaz language corpus, there's also a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in the language.