Why we can't read it and Michael Coe's "Five Pillars of Decipherment"

[pjburkshire]

What if the Voynich Manuscript is a natural language but a constructed alphabet? Would that fall under Pillar #2 of the "Five Pillars of Decipherment"?

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"Some scripts were invented for spoken languages that did not have adequate writing systems, including the Hangul, Cherokee, Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, N'Ko, Fraser, Tangut and Pollard scripts. Armenian, Georgian, and Glagolitic may fit in this category, though their origin is not known."


It looks to me like the people who invented the Voynichese alphabet adopted some Latin letters, maybe some Greek letters, and maybe some letters from other places, and then invented some of their own out of thin air. A hodge-podge alphabet that was uniquely theirs.

To me, the letter "a" looks like the handwritten lowercase letter "a". To me, "s" looks a little like a lowercase Greek Zeta "ζ".

The Voynichese letter that has always intrigued me the most is "l". To me it looks like one of those memorial ribbons that people wear to support a cause. It looks like the rune, Othala "ᛟ" and also the Turkic "?".

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