[Blog Post] Some conclusions drawn from twelve years of studying the Voynich manuscript.

[Fabrizio Salani]

.... or an ancient language lost in the dust of time.

The 15th century is hardly "the dust of time". If a language as complex as the one in the VMS actually existed, then why are there no traces of such a culture, anywhere?

We know little about the languages of Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
For example: "Cuman" a Turkic language (of the Kipchak branch) from the Caspian Sea steppe, spoken in Hungary and the Eurasian steppes. The only existing example is the CODEX CUMANICUS, a kind of "Rosetta Stone," where the same text is written in Latin, Persian, and Cuman by Catholic missionaries; without that transcription, we would never have known of the textual existence of this language.