Classifying False Voynich Decipherment "Solutions"

[Mark Knowles]

Referring to Nick Pelling's not quite up to date list of Voynich theories and focusing on decipherment theories we have the following:

• Tim Ackerson says the VMs was written in Early Welsh / Old Cornish

• Zbigniew Banasik claimed that the VMs is written in the Manchu language

• Robert S. Brumbaugh thought the alphabet was a lossy number cipher, with each glyph basically standing in for an Arabic numeral.

• Dan Burisch claims that the VMs was written down in enciphered Hebrew by Roger Bacon.

• Jim Child, sees Voynichese as a pronounceable early German language.

• Jim Comegys says that the VMs was written in Nahuatl

• Joseph Martin Feely constructed what he believed to be a partial decipherment of page f78r.

• Beatrice Gwynn thinks it’s written in left-right mirrored Middle High German.

• George Hoschel Jr thinks that the VMs is in “Old Latin”

• Leo Levitov‘s Cathar Theory(I think this is a translation theory)

• Jody Maat believes that the VMs is readable as a (vaguely polyglot) Old Dutch.

• Ursula Papke has a kind of NLP-like transcendental interpretation of the Voynich glyphs, wherein each glyph gets decomposed into constituent strokes, and the kind of “stroke harmonies” that implicitly make up individual words are interpreted to tell a kind of rising/falling/looping narrative.

• Rolando Hernandez Rivero posted that the Voynich Manuscript was written in “Old Spanish” (but with bits of Latin and English thrown in).

• Richard Rogers claims that the VMs is an ultra-terse Renaissance drawing language, to describe  heretical symbols without actually drawing them.

• John Stojko‘s vowel-less Ukrainian theory

• Dr Leonell Strong believed that he had deciphered the two pages of the VMs he had reasonable reproductions of, using a base alphabet local to a section of ciphertext but with an offset cycling through the set [0]135797531474.

• An anonymous Greek individual has proposed a Jewish Arabic Voynich theory, which claims to map Voynich letters to Hebrew equivalents, to produce an Arabic text

I don't know which amongst these are complete decipherment theories and which are just I think it must be German, but I can't read it, theories. 

This list excludes more recent theories like the Hannig theory etc.

The putting of different false theories into different classifications in terms of the nature of the theories, not in terms of the languages suggested, is what I am interested in here.