22% of 38,000 vords

[Jorge_Stolfi]

The voynich is abnormal with a huge anomaly of 22% of initial vowel being only "o" of the first letter of a vord out 38,000 vords.

I believe that the text is a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..  Such languages generally use tones (pitch levels or pitch profiles) to increase the number of distinct syllables. Mandarin, for instance, has four tones (or five, depending on definition), and the frequency of each tone is very roughly 25%.  

Even if you still don't believe in that claim above, know that tones are a feature of some polysyllabic languages too, like  Swedish and Pirahã. 

In commonly used phonetic transcriptions of such languages, the tone is usually encoded by a diacritic, like zhǔ, or a postfix digit, like zhu3.  But it is sometimes also encoded as one or more digits interspersed with the other leters, like 2ya1o3 to mean "start with mid-level pitch, drop to low pitch, then rise to high pitch". 

So maybe Voynichese o means "start with mid-level pitch..."

Also, most languages have two series of consonants distinguished by voicing: p/b, f/v, k/g, t/d, s/z, sh/j, th/dh, tch/dj, ... Many languages also have parallel series of consonants that are distinguished by other features, like "aspiration" or "doubling".  

In many scripts, these differences are denoted by various marks applied to a "base" consonant.  In Japanese hiragana and katakana, for example, voicing is indicated by a "diacritic" that looks like double quotes (as in げいしゃ "geisha"), and consonant "doubling" is indicated by a special sign っ before the consonant (as in にっぽん "Nippon").

So maybe Voynichese o means that the next consonant is voiced, doubled, aspirated, whatever...

All the best, --stolfi