[Blog Post] Scribes of the Voynich Manuscript

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This is possible, but it would limit your solutions to ones that require a small amount of glyphs. The VM's alphabet size is already limited, and with this you would remove a bunch more.

No it wouldn't? There's still plenty of symbols. 
And to be clear, I said two of the them might have different forms, not all. 
(Edit: Well, technically it could be just one letter with three forms: qo, a, aiin.)


But let's assume there aren't enough by whatever standard..

1). Could be an abjad. Like Syriac or Arabic, incidentally two scripts where letters have positional forms. 

2) Could be defective. Book Pahlavi was a ten symbol script with several sounds per.

3) Could have a lot of digraphs. Seems unlikely considering the generally short word length though.

Combine 1&2 for a real nightmare. But you know, that would drive down the entropy.