VMS - Language Families Casting

[davidjackson]

Hello Gavin and welcome to the forum!

Gavin Güldenpfennig Wrote: 1. Are there any language families, which are completely impossible as VMS language and if yes, why?

MarcoP wronte: Nothing is "completely impossible", but I think that American languages are nearly impossible. I tend to totally ignore that option.

Just to annoy MarcoP   I'll remind him that some people* say that if you consider a syllabic based language family then Hawaiian is a close match. 

*I'm not one of them!

I think we can forget about agglutinative languages. Voynichese has a very regular distribution, we don't see vords running together.

2. Is it possible, that the VMS, as we know it today, could be a copy of an older book?

Indeed it could be. In fact, it has been argued that due to the low correction rate, it certainly is a copy of some text, rather than being made up "on the fly" (although the counter argument is that anything being copied tends to be error prone, due to human nature being what it is). Even if this only means it has been copied from draft notes. And if there are different scribes involved in the making of the book, then it certainly is a copy from either a master work or a draft.

3. Are there any living or dead language families, which are "hot candidates" for the VMS language and if yes, why?

It is indisputable that Voynichese glyphs were designed by somebody with knowledge of European and Latin medieval scripts. This does not mean that it was based upon such a language. So no, not that I know of.

4. Could you imagine, that somebody from the "Old World" (Europe, Asia, Africa) would "encode" a manuscript, at the time around 1000 - 1500 AD, to hide discoveries in the "New World" (America)?

No. If this is a book about discoveries in the New World then it would be based upon an extensive exploration of the territory, and such an expedition would be state sponsored. It would not have petered out and never been heard from again.

5. Is it absolutely clear, that Rudolf II. and Jacobus de Tepenece were the first owners of the manuscript or do we know more about the VMS owners today?

It is not "absolutely clear". Rather, the balance of probability shows that the manuscript went through their hands. For more on this subject see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Any previous owner is unknown, and as it stands, unknowable.