Calgary engineer believes he's cracked the mysterious Voynich Manuscript

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Stick to the facts.
The 1970 statement is outdated and not true.
Erkruskers are Europeans. More precisely, they are northern Italians.
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I am beginning to suspect that you are trying to justify your theory about the history of 4000 years and by scraping together words from all over the Near East.
There is no connection between VM and Turkish, and yes, the Europeans came from the East 40,000 years ago. But that's probably not it.
I think you've got yourself into something too, and you're stuck.

I agree with you on your general point about where this is all going (and where it's coming from), but since the other thread on this issue included a lengthy diatribe that we Europeans are going around "claiming" languages, I just wanted to flag that the Etruscan language is unlikely to be Indo-European.

Very little is known about Etruscan's origin.  We can read its words aloud because it uses an earlier version of the alphabet.  We even know the meaning of a small range of words thanks to comparative texts.  While the range is very small due to paucity of Etruscan texts, the words show enough differences with the various branches of Indo-European for the general consensus amongst linguists to be that Etruscan is probably not an Indo-European language.

But the range is also too small for any respectable theory connecting it to another big language family.  There are no grounds for saying Etruscan is Turkic or indeed part of any big language family.  It is doubtful that we will ever know what family it belonged to.  There simply isn't enough linguistic material to do a proper comparison.  Any such theories are just fringe theories.    

In terms of the Etruscan people (worth noting that language origin doesn't always correlate with genetic origin, even if it seems likely), there have been theories about where they came from for millennia.  The standard two alternatives seem to be that they had been indigenous to the area for a long time, or they migrated from the Near East, which was not Turkic at the time.  It seems every few years there's a new DNA analysis of corpses or cattle arguing one or the other.