Sorry I'm only getting around to replying today, and thank you all for these replies.
When I look at studies such as Montemurro or Reddy & Knight or Jaskiewicz and see that the Voynich is only compared against the major languages (European or Asian), it seems to me like we might be missing out on something by ignoring the lesser dialects and the pidgins in such analyses.
I can understand if no one else is interested or if it seems pointless, and after all, as I said, it would be an impossible task to compile them all.
However I think it would be a shame if someone actually already had found the right decryption tool but hadn't found meaningful text because they didn't consider all the language options for the plaintext results they got?
Also, in the unexpected category, I'd like to add Romani.
eg:
[*]dūvrī – "distant"
[*]dūvrī-dūvrī – very distant"
Romani and its variants were and are present in many European countries at the relevant time for the Voynich. I know that the Romani hypothesis has been mentioned by commenters on Stephen Bax's site as well a couple of years ago.
[*]ETA: just saw that Derrek Vogt had looked into the Romani option, with very interesting results... but that was last year... I wonder if there have been any new developments?
When I look at studies such as Montemurro or Reddy & Knight or Jaskiewicz and see that the Voynich is only compared against the major languages (European or Asian), it seems to me like we might be missing out on something by ignoring the lesser dialects and the pidgins in such analyses.
I can understand if no one else is interested or if it seems pointless, and after all, as I said, it would be an impossible task to compile them all.
However I think it would be a shame if someone actually already had found the right decryption tool but hadn't found meaningful text because they didn't consider all the language options for the plaintext results they got?
Also, in the unexpected category, I'd like to add Romani.
eg:
[*]dūvrī – "distant"
[*]dūvrī-dūvrī – very distant"
Romani and its variants were and are present in many European countries at the relevant time for the Voynich. I know that the Romani hypothesis has been mentioned by commenters on Stephen Bax's site as well a couple of years ago.
[*]ETA: just saw that Derrek Vogt had looked into the Romani option, with very interesting results... but that was last year... I wonder if there have been any new developments?