Hypervector Analysis of the Voynich Manuscript

[MichelleL11]

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.

Please note that the first I heard of Caucasian languages was last night so I am relying on what is out there on the web, not my own expertise -- but I did notice in my reading that at least Ossetic also has no articles.  So "a/an or "the" are expressed through changes internal to the word (e.g. change in stress, that is written differently to reflect this differing "strength").

I would propose that, along with the low number of vowels, this aspect of the language would also increase the chance of a match using this kind of analysis.

Of course, it would be quite exciting if these were true parallels, but until the match between alphabet and glyphs are made the possibility of coincidence needs to be seriously considered, as Don has obviously done. 

My reading indicated that at one point Ossetic used (at least in an earlier version called Alanic) the Greek alphabet, see 

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which may be more more contemporaneous for the carbon dating of the VM.

Finally, my reading also said there was a dialect of Ossetic called Jassic that was spoken in Hungary, due to migration there in the 13th century, that exists as a written language through one known document, dated to 1422, that is in the Hungarian National Szechenyi Library.  It is a glossary of 34 words related to products of agriculture.  That would also be an interesting document to see.  Unfortunately, it seems that this language may be no longer spoken.