Alternatives to alphabet?

[Emma May Smith]

The biggest 'problem' with the Voynich alphabet, in my opinion, is the funny behaviour of Eva 'ch', I could imagine many things, for example in case the text is a phonetic rendition of some language foreign to the author/scribe:

Eva-'ch' could just be aspiration, like the 'h' in English. 'ch' and 'sh' could be different types (real or perceived) like the two different sipritus symbols in Greek.
ckh and cth could be aspirated versions of unaspirated consonants k and t. (all Eva)

I know Vogt has this set up in his theory, but I'm not sure how like such clusters are, or how likely they are given clusters tend to by rare in the Voynich text. Given that [ch, sh] make up the second half of the bulk of the clusters we see, I think we're looking at something much more simpler, such as [ch, sh] being semivowels like /y, w/. It would also explain why vowels are sometimes absent after them, as they can become vowels in ordinary speech. And it would explain why they're not really found in syllables codas.

It would mean, however, that a vast number of words begin /ya-, wa-/ or the like. Maybe instead they're some other approximant like /l, r/? As lots of words beginning /la-/ would be wonderful. But then you're left with some rare, but possible, clusters of the type mostly seen in...Slavic languages.

/braindump