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[bi3mw]

--Like Friedman and Tiltman, I also believe that the script is an artificial language invented. The only difference is that I think it is an iconic code and not a phonetic one.

William Friedman left an anagram whose solution was named by his wife:

"The Voynich Manuscript was an early attempt to construct an artificial or universal language of the A-Priori type.-Friedman."

This suggests that Friedman meant a constructed language, not an artificial language by today's definition:

"A-priori languages are invented from scratch. They follow, for example, a philosophical system that is supposed to describe or classify the world in a culturally neutral way. Symbols are adopted from existing languages or scripts for graphical representation."

So it's not so much about a code, but a construction of language.

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