Midwifery miscellanea, mayhap Maltese

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So now, challenge me, roast me. As sooner I know where my false assumptions are, the sooner I can adopt my approach.

Hi!

I'm not sure what to challenge here, is there any specific evidence pointing towards Maltese? I think Maltese has been discussed before, but I can't find it now.

Also, for a midwifery book, I find the total lack of babies in the images a bit unexpected.

From my search engine:

The possibility of Maltese as the language of the Voynich Manuscript has been discussed by several researchers. Emma May Smith considered Maltese due to its historical context, its status as a Semitic language written in Roman script, and the potential for its unvoweled nature to explain the manuscript's characteristics. [3] Michael Zakaria also raised the possibility of the text being an archaic creole, or a variant of Latinized Siculo-Arabic, similar to modern Maltese. [10] In 1991, Jacques Guy speculated whether one of the two proposed "languages" in the manuscript could be Maltese, suggesting a connection to Sabir dialects spoken by Venetian and Maltese individuals. [1] R.S. Richmond noted in 1997 that while Semitic languages are usually written without all vowels, Maltese is fully vocalized. [5] More recently, in 2022, a peer-reviewed paper by Caruana, Layfield, and Abela, based in Malta, acknowledged the limitations of their language coverage in comparing the Voynich Manuscript to only Old English and Old Italian. [15] They noted that resources for low-resource languages like Maltese are limited, despite their team being well-placed to study it. [15] On the voynich.ninja forum in 2021, VViews expressed a wish for Maltese to have been included in such comparisons, while also noting the scarcity of surviving Maltese texts from before the 1485 Kantilena. [16]

Sources:
[1] voynich.nu mailing list a1991 — You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
[3] Summary of my views on the Voynich Manuscript — You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
[5] voynich.nu mailing list a1997C — You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
[10] Nick Pelling - a response — You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
[15] An Analysis of the Relationship between Words within the Voynich Manuscript (Caruana, Layfield & Abela 2022) — You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
[16] Dr. Colin Layfield and Dr. John Abela are doing research on the VMS — You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.