Quote:I have no strong opinion on the underlying language, if there is any at all, so I can't tell whether the labels match or not. That's why I chose to ignore them altogether when looking at patterns. I guess the language could be anything known in or before the 1400s. It could be something well known now like Latin or Greek, but also Venetian or Maltese or some other obscure regional or global language.
If you are new to the subject, maybe you haven't read about conditional character entropy yet. It's a statistical measure that is unaffected by simple substitution: for Voynichese it is exceptionally low, showing that Voynichese is not an ordinary language (like those you mentioned), just written with a fancy alphabet. You can find more information in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., or on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
The labels of the possible seven planets are ordinary Voynichese words, showing the typical rigid structure. For instance, 4 out of 7 start with EVA:o- (two of them start with EVA:oka-) and 2 of the others start with EVA:y-. If it were a simple substitution, we would be looking for languages with a similar distribution of initials for planet names.