My thoughts on the VMS

[ThomasCoon]

I am sorry, it seems my example was misleading and my question was lost.

I don't think that Voynichese can be Latin, but I think that Voynichese can be a morphological rich language (like Latin) with a strong agglutinative component (more than Latin, but in manuscripts spaces are sometimes omitted, with the result of a pseudo-agglutination).

As Emma wrote, the fact that words have repeating prefixes and suffixes really points to the fact that spaces are meaningful.

Explaining sequencies like
qokeedy.qokeedy.qokeedy.qotey.qokeey.qokeey
certainly is difficult and I cannot think of anything but some kind of intensification by repetition. 
But is
qokeedyqokeedyqokeedyqoteyqokeeyqokeey
easier to explain?

I'm sorry Marco; I missed your original question because I jumped at the word "Latin"

I am actually not sure that an agglutinative language can be the solution - usually words are much longer in agglutinative languages than words in the VMS (just look at the Turkish Wikipedia homepage: "Hristiyanların insan haklarının çiğnendiği konusunda..."). But regardless:

I don't necessarily agree that  "the fact that words have repeating prefixes and suffixes really points to the fact that spaces are meaningful." I provided a counter-example in the other thread:

yol ar ar Shaiin seeo Shoesal chetoly qoch qoskeaiin arSheo qochot qosolaiin otchod keesy oeee qochod ...

= Nullo modo dixerunt. Etiam hoc tertium respondete: s...

Key: <y> = N, <ol> = U, <ar> = L, <Sh> or <se> = o, <aiin> = m, <eo> = d, <s> = i, <al> = x, <ch> or <ee> = e, <ot> = r, <qo> = t, <ke> = a, <or> = H, <od> = s

So, in about 15 minutes of effort I can encode a real plaintext (St. Augustine) with contrived spaces, and certain groups (qo) are always in front while others are always in back (aiin)

Therefore two things to keep in mind:

1) If you are searching for a natural language for Voynichese and believe the VMS spaces are true, you are almost certainly limited to agglutinative and polysynthetic languages because of the "morphology" of Voynich words (see the <qot> forms). This eliminates most of the languages in Europe.

2) There are ways to explain the word-initial and word-final clusters with contrived spaces,  and at the same time explain the low VMS entropy.