Calgary engineer believes he's cracked the mysterious Voynich Manuscript

[Ahmet Ardıç]

[1. How many Turkic dialects have you found so far ?
2. Does the poetic meter of your translation conform to any known poetry ?]

Dear RobGea,

1. Are you asking how many Turkish dialects we found in the VM texts? If this is your question, the answer is:

> We have not been able to identify a specific dialect in the VM dialect whose linguistic phonetic forms have been recorded by linguists before. There may be several reasons for this. We can mention that the primary reason is that there is no other manuscript belonging to a clearly defined dialect that we can phonetically compare to identified VM texts. In other words, the author's dialect may be a Turkish dialect with a low population density (who did not leave any written example written 600 years ago that has survived to the present day).

> Or a member of the minority, who obviously knows Turkish well even though her/his native language is not Turkish, may have wanted to write this book in Turkish and did so.

If we are talking about an unknown dialect, we must understand the phonetic structure of which region today, especially some of the noun words (such as plant names) mentioned in VM-texts are close to. To understand this, we have been constantly comparing the findings with different dialects for a long time. While making this comparison, we see that as time goes by, there is a greater degree of similarity to the dialects of a certain geography. Based on this, we determined that the author mostly used words known from adjacent geographies such as the Black Sea, Thrace, and North-Aegean. I think that our conclusion on this subject may evolve over time to point to a narrower geography as the contribution of linguists to our work increases.

2. We can see that the author uses a poetic rhyme form in the texts mostly in the section about plants. If I were to answer your question based on current findings; It can be said that the rhyme form is not followed on the pages other than the pages on which plants are discussed.

Thanks