(12-02-2026, 04:26 PM)Battler wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I still think Korean should be looked at - 1420 would be right when King Sejong was inventing a new writing system for Korean and perhaps Voynichese was an earlier, failed attempt before he and his monks settled on we now know as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl. What noone has done yet, is take a text in 15th century Korean, expand the Hangul syllable blocks into the individual jamo (the phonetic components making up the blocks), and run the statistics on that. Another possibility that should be taken into account is Chinese with Korean pronunciation. See if there's any text from the 15th century that the Korean pronunciation of the hanja (Chinese characters) written in hangul, and do the same process with it - expand every syllable block into its constituent jamo and then run the statistics on the result. Even better would be if any copy of the SBJ was found from 15th century Korea, preferably written in hangul, then that could be compared with Voynichese.
The jamo are an alphabet, and will give rise to the same problems any other substitution cipher does. Voynichese could, of course, be something more sophisticated, but then there is no advantage to assuming Korean; it's not a "Chinese" language in the somewhat unfortunate way Jorge is using it because Korean is neither monosyllabic nor tonal. Korean doesn't have the problems of representing You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that Jorge believes Voynichese letter order is trying to solve.