[Blog Post] Scribes of the Voynich Manuscript

[ReneZ]

Natural languages are not constructed that way

At least the ones that do are a great minority.

I prefer to see "qo" as a unit that is in some way equivalent to "o" (i.e. word-initial o).
Then, there are many possibilities. It could be a modified version of this word-initial o or it could be something else that is not too closely related.

The very few cases where q is not at the start of a word, or that it is not followed by o can also be explained in several different ways.

All these open options depend on whether the text is rather based on a written original or a spoken original.
Just to give an example: if word-initial o is any vowel, then the preceding q could be a glottal stop or an aspiration (spoken original).