[split] The Zipf law and the Voynich Manuscript

[Stefan Wirtz_2]

I congratulate you on your varied linguistic knowledge, but we're talking about a document from medieval Europe, and it doesn't seem to make much sense to talk about other geographical environments.
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Russian, Czech, Croatian, ..., Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Hebrew and, with limits, Arabic are or were present in wide areas of Europe during the 15th century and before.
Added with Mongolian, and it is quite possible that you can count all caucasian languages (which is an own world of languages itself) as well into the options. VMS alphabet reminds a bit of some georgian letters, for example.

It is still on thin ice to say the VMS is "a document from Europe", even though there are a few hints relating it to european customs -- but you even cannot exclude a small group of exotic traders who produced and used the VMS, coming from somewhere else.
Personally I would exclude a japanese, vietnamese, chinese or tibetian kernel here, but just because these are languages with a fully developed writing system in 15th ct already (which counts also for any Latin and Greek relatives) and there was no urge to develop a new alphabet for the very economical/discounting VMS.