previous Basque theories of the Voynich ms?

[geoffreycaveney]

Geoffrey, looking quickly at a text in Basque, I don't see an agreement with Voynich.

This is a Basque translation of the New Testament: "gure Jaunaren Testamentu Berria" = 'our Lord-GENITIVE Testament New-the'

I would expect medieval original Basque poetry for example to look rather different. But still, I get the point that any Basque will have longer words than the Voynich ms does. I do not contest or argue with that point.

But I think word length is the least of all our problems with the Voynich ms. It is not difficult to conceive of the Voynich ms vords as 1-syllable or 2-syllable segments, possibly morphemes, or possibly a more idiosyncratic segmentation. A sequence of multiple Voynich vords could possibly represent a single word in the language as we know it in its standard written form.

That is the only immediately obvious visible difference that jumps out at me as clearly evident. Can you specify some more particular differences that you have in mind? I am sure there are numerous differences, but I would like to see them spelled out so that we can discuss them objectively.