Why and how the text could be Bavarian

[JoJo_Jost]

In this cipher if I have some plaintext, say "gip im haselnuzze zezzen mache im ein plaster uon haselnuzze", is there only one way to encode this as Voynichese or can there be different Voynichese sequences that decode to the same plaintext?

That’s not so easy to answer. If you were to take just this one sentence out of context, as far as I understand it so far, there would only be one way to decode it. That said, I don’t yet know how flexible the homophone representation of the vowels is. Since there are several different vowel bridges for a single vowel, the vowel could vary. But that’s typical for a homophone cipher.

On top of that: The whole thing flows in a stream, without word boundaries or punctuation. And then it would probably also depend on what word came before it.

Example

The German sentence: “Es ist gut”  (It is good) begins with a vowel. If the preceding word were “Haus,” (house) the vowel in the stream might have to refer to the last consonant. But that could also alter the entire rhythm of the sentence. I can’t say for sure at the moment how far that goes.

After examining these repetitions for cribs about further patterns of behavior, I want to build a generator that uses this model to translate German sentences into VMS, in order to gain a deeper understanding of where the “problems” with this cipher lie and to determine whether VMS also has these problems, or how VMS might solve them under certain circumstances.

At the moment, I am unable to solve C2. C1 can be easily determined using frequency analysis; the vowel bridges related to C1 could likely also be solved—I already have some ideas—but if what I’ve written is correct, C2 should not be decipherable without further clues or similar Cribs.

Regardless of whether it is actually the VMS cipher: The VBM shows that, simply by looking at the text from a slightly different perspective—without adding or removing anything (except for the word boundaries)—it is quite clear that the text can based on perfectly ordinary language, and that all, or at least most, of the distinctive features of the VMS fit this description—including the word repetitions.