Which plaintext languages to try?

[MarcoP]

Hi oshfdk, Addsamuels's list covers the three major families of European languages (Germanic, Romance, Slavic).
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One could add examples of some smaller missing families for completeness (e.g. Greek. Hungarian, Welsh, Turkish).

In my opinion, it's possible that European languages are more or less equivalent when compared with Voynichese, until one gets to the "fine tuning" stage. One could as well start working with a single language. Most of the features of Voynichese could depend on the writing system (unless it is an artificial language). E.g. rigid word structure / low character entropy, word repetitions, consecutive similar words, line-effects/LAAFU, paragraph effects (e.g. EVA:p, Grove words), Currier A and B, pharmacese (subvariant of A), uncertain word spaces... I doubt that a writing system that results in these features for (say) German wouldn't generate the same features for (say) Italian.

Therefore, I suggest including English (even modern English) in the list of languages, so that we can follow how the writing system works with a language we all can understand. Working with modern English only could be a good way to start and share ideas, until one  arrives at a system that explains most of the weirdness of Voynichese.