Hypervector Analysis of the Voynich Manuscript

[DonaldFisk]

There are some errors in the language categories: Romance is an alternative name for Italic.   Welsh isn't Italic, it's Celtic.   Altaic is no longer accepted as a language family.   Malayalam and Kannada are Dravidian, not Indic.   Georgian is Kartvelian, not Caucasian.   Hittite is Anatolian.    Though, to be fair,  maybe none of that matters if texts in the various languages you analysed cluster in the way you found them to.

For an unknown script, there is no difference between plaintext and simple substitution.

By specifying Mandarin (as opposed Chinese), am I right in assuming you used something like Pinyin instead of Chinese characters (as well as phonetic transcriptions for Japanese and Korean scripts)?

But curiously, you find Voynichese in a Caucasian language cluster, along with the North West Caucasian languages, Adyghe and Abaza.   I reached a similar conclusion (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).   The closest match I found was with Abkhaz, another North West Caucasian language.  The most likely explanation, though, is simply that Abkhaz has only two vowel phonemes and there's no clear vowel branch in Voynichese.

Although I think the Voynich manuscript text is probably meaningless, in the event it is a meaningful plaintext/simple substitution cipher, I concluded that it must be in a language phonetically similar to North West Caucasian languages.   The practical problem, as you've pointed out, is that very few people know anything about them.      The best way forward is to try to match Voynichese glyphs to phonemes/Cyrillic letters before involving a native speaker.