25-04-2024, 12:45 PM
(25-04-2024, 12:22 PM)pjburkshire wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think that is the problem. People are looking for a key. What if there isn't a key? What if I am right and it is not an encryption but a lost language?
Why are so many people so sure that it is an encryption?
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Something has been done to the plain text, and it seems this has the effect of encryption.
There has been research looking at properties of a wide variety of natural languages. None of them were consistent with Voynichese's properties. Even those like Hawaiian or Mandarin that might match one weird property fall down with regard to others.
Your lost language would presumably be related to an existing language studied, and so how likely is it that it differs enough from its surviving siblings to match all of Voynichese's bizarre properties?
If you are imagining a language isolate that could have been spoken enough to make it into the manuscript by 1438 but is utterly unknown with no trace now, that language isolate would also have to have very unusual properties from other language families. This seems low probability.