[Article] The Linguistics of the Voynich Manuscript (Bowern et al. 2020)

[Stephen Carlson]

The major issue with a verbose cipher hypothesis is that it makes words very short. For example if [aiin] is one character in the source text, then [daiin] is now only two characters. This implies that the source text would be something like a syllabic language or another language with words split, in syllables or otherwise.

Right, but a syllabic language would be inconsistent with the relatively high number of hapax legomena in the text.