24-02-2026, 05:57 PM
Maybe I tossed the baby out with the bathwater too soon. As I understand it, the computational study published in 2018 by Greg Kondrak and his students at the University of Alberta that came up with the answer of "Hebrew" was done as a classroom exercise or demonstration. It was not intended to be an actual study of the mystery language of the Voynich Manuscript. As I understand it, he only included modern languages in his classroom project. The project did not include extinct dialects.
The mystery language of the Voynich Manuscript could still be some kind of lost Slavic dialect. Maybe Cvetka really is seeing some recognizable words.
Just because I gave up on the Jan Hus connection idea that doesn't mean I have to give up on the lost Slavic dialect idea. So, I am changing the item 4 "Motive" from my February 5, 2026 post. I no longer think the Motive was to break away from Latin and the Roman Catholic Church. Maybe it was a priest or doctor who had traveled and who had collected books and moved or returned to a small rural village and wanted to educate the people in their own language.
The mystery language of the Voynich Manuscript could still be some kind of lost Slavic dialect. Maybe Cvetka really is seeing some recognizable words.
Just because I gave up on the Jan Hus connection idea that doesn't mean I have to give up on the lost Slavic dialect idea. So, I am changing the item 4 "Motive" from my February 5, 2026 post. I no longer think the Motive was to break away from Latin and the Roman Catholic Church. Maybe it was a priest or doctor who had traveled and who had collected books and moved or returned to a small rural village and wanted to educate the people in their own language.