Language A vs B crib?

[Emma May Smith]

Ohh right, you mean like British people would say "my idea-r is that...".

And word-initially it would be something like Spanish speakers put an "e" when a word starts with "sp" or sn" or... They will even say "Espiderman" or "Esnoopy".

I cannot think of a language where this happens with an initial vowel though, but I guess it must exist.

The first example is exactly the kind of thing I am proposing, simply on a bigger scale. It does, in fact, happen in many (most? all?) languages to some extent but is often not expressed in writing. Some languages, however, do include it as part of their orthography.

The Voynich text may be a case where a very newly (and sparsely) written language has no set boundaries about what phonetic features are encoded. It could well be that some of the differences between A and B languages are simply the result of different orthographies, or a process of refinement in an emerging orthography over the period of production.

For example, if you were an English speaker from England you would say both, "my idea that" and "my idear is that". Phonetically you might see them as two forms of the same word depending on a following vowel (so idea/idear is equivalent to a/an) and write them out clearly. But you could also consider them as obvious variants depending on the phonetic context and simply write "idea" in all cases. For a native English speaker, "a apple" is perfectly easy to read because we know instinctively to pronounce the word "a" as "an" in this context.