previous research on Arabic and the Voynich ms?

[MichelleL11]

If we can assume it is written left to right, then it is safe to assume we have to read it in the same direction.

Although l completely understand this argument and would’ve agreed with it without other statistics, l think it is plausible that some sort of rearrangement of the glyphs within words may be necessary to get the rigid structure exhibited.  With those kinds of steps being seriously considered, putting an “al” at the end of a word rather than the beginning seems to be a pretty mild step.

Of course this messes with the VCI approach - but independently, Arabic words with “al”s placed at the end of the word doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility and certainly can be accommodated.