Calgary engineer believes he's cracked the mysterious Voynich Manuscript

[Ahmet Ardıç]

Dear Researchers,

If some readers/researchers perceive that VM content is more likely to be in Turkish and want to support our research, I can ask them for help on some issues. I would like to thank in advance everyone who may wish to contribute to our research voluntarily.

I would like to explain to potential volunteers how they can contribute to our research even if they do not know Turkish. In addition, researchers who may volunteer in this research can also write and publish their articles based on their findings or overlaps.

Researchers who may volunteer should note the following information:

1- To compare the words in VM content, they can find academic articles or dictionaries containing information such as Old Turkish plant names, star names, animal names, and drug names.

Here, I would like to share with you the link to an article that I have just seen for the first time, as an example. I also share a dictionary page. If anyone wants to compare the plant names in this article using VM texts and ATA alphabet transcription, they will contribute to this research:

Article name: THE PROBLEM OF PLANT NAMES’ LATIN SCIENTIFIC EQUIVALENTS IN OLD ANATOLIAN TURKISH MEDICAL MANUSCRIPT STUDIES
Author: Anıl ÇELİK
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&
Historical Dictionary of Ottoman Turkish Terms For Gardens and Gardening:
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Additionally; People who know old nomenclatures (plant names, toponyms such as old names of castles and cities, etc.) in European languages, especially Old Latin and Old Greek, can also search for these words on the VM plant pages and map pages.

2- You can take into account the information about the sound differences between the most common dialects in Turkish in your word comparisons. For example, if the plant name is PIRASA and you know that the "I" and "U" sound changes frequently between dialects, you can also search for this word as PURASA.

For this reason, you should know that the most common sound changes among dialects in Turkish are as follows:
I >  U / İ > Ü
B > P / P > F
O > A / Ö > E
G > K / G > Ğ
D > T
S > Z
C > Ç / C > J
T > K / D > G
L > N
B >M
F > V

You may also be interested in the following pages where you can get information about the phonetic and phonological structure of Turkish:

Vowel Harmony is a Basic Phonetic Rule of the Turkic Languages: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

DEVIATIONS FROM THE GENERALIZED PHONOLOGICAL RULES IN TURKIC LANGUAGES: > You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Dialects on the Eastern Turkish Coast of the Black Sea:
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Turkic sound changes:
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THE SOUND STRUCTURE OF THE TURKIC LANGUAGES IN CONNECTION WITH THAT OF THE FINNO-UGRIC ONES: (An instrumental-phonetic and phonologic investigation):
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COMPARATIVE PHONOLOGY OF HISTORICAL KIPCHAK TURKISH: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

The Influence of Turkish Sound System on English Pronunciation:  You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

ASSIMILATION OF SOUNDS IN THE TURKISH LANGUAGE: A CASE STUDY OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AT KARABUK REGION (TURKEY):
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Turkish phonology: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Thank you,