Voynichese: a forgotten turkic-aramaic-persian language?

[Emma May Smith]

Thanks, Emma and Koen,
It's great to see a conversation develop like this. As a non-linguist member, it's just the sort of thing which helps us non-specialists balance the for and against arguments relating to any linguistic proposition.

Emma, do you feel that the way Mingrelian language works conforms to the patterns of the Voynich text? Is it worth exploring further, do you think?

I can't say I know much about Mingrelian, to be honest. But like most Kartvelian languages it has a large inventory of consonants. Given that the Voynich script is relatively sparse there would be a lot of ambiguity. The syllable structure may also be wrong, but I wouldn't want to give a definite answer for that as I am lacking information.