Why create such a complex cipher?

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So you may have different forms of "calidus"

It seems to me to be highly unlikely that the manuscript is written in an inflected language. In inflected languages each noun and adjective changes its ending to reflect changes in how the word is to be used. Meanings are determined more by how a word ends and less through any accompanying prepositions. The alternative to a language being inflected is to be analytical, like English. Nouns in these languages do not inflect. Meaning is determined more through prepositions and word order. One consequence of a language being inflected is that the average word lengths are longer, due to the need for fewer short word prepositions and due to the need for extra letters at the end of words. You can see this clearly in languages such as Polish and Russian. Yet words in the manuscript tend to be short. The average word length in the text passages in the Glen Claston transliteration ( v101 ) is only 3.9 ( excludes labels and circular text ). Too short.

If the table for 'calidus' is telling us that you have the hypothesis that the manuscript is Latin then you have some additional problems. Verbs in Latin have passive forms which lead to even less need for prepositions to qualify meaning.

But if you really are welcoming the challenge of trying to find inflections in the manuscript you might like to make things more challenging for yourself by considering the possibility that the manuscript may be in a celtic language like Irish or Welsh. One feature of those languages is the presence of eclipsis or consonant mutations at the start of words. Have fun!