A possible way to break down Voynich text

[ThomasCoon]

This is something that I've known for a while now, and I have kept it secret, but I think it's time to reveal it to the community. I also posted it to Stephen Bax's website and the VMS mailing list:

I have located about 26 patterns that the text breaks down into. Almost all of the Voynich text (170,000+ characters) may be formed from these 26 units. If there is no other way to explain why the manuscript does this, then this may be a clue to the solution of the manuscript.

Here are the patterns:



And here is an example using the patterns from the May Zodiac:



And here is an example from a random page, folio 9v:



Don't take my word for it - Print off the "Units of the Voynich script" and try to break down the text into the 26 (or 27) patterns that I've described. I find that they work 79 out of 80 times (maybe the Scribe made a spelling error on the exception!)

I believe that each unit may substitute for a Latin script letter. For example, qo = a, ar = b, y = (u)s, etc. We all know that these patterns keep re-appearing in the Voynich text, and they seem to have meanings independent of their words, or their location in words.

For example, we have daiin, but also qodaiin, chodaiin, qochodaiin, qoar, and qoaiin. It looks like these words are just composed of smaller building blocks: qo, d, aiin, ar, ch, etc.


So why am I posting this now?

1) I would like your feedback. Can these patterns be explained another way or other methods? Or could they really be the "alphabet" of the Manuscript?

2) If this is the key, then I'll need the community's help. Since I still don't know what language to look for, I would rule out phonetic patterns in languages that I'm not familiar with. If the manuscript is Italian or Hebrew, for example, I might never recognize it. I have tried some Latin and German substitution and got some grammatical Latin phrases, but they may be false positives.

Also, the Units chart may not be 100% correct. There may need to be changes (I'm not 100% certain about the last patterns).
But if this is the key, let the games begin!

Thomas Coon
Savannah, GA
9/3/16