Midwifery miscellanea, mayhap Maltese

[Rafal]

To make it crystal clear: There is no overall hard evidence yet the VMS has something to do with Maltese, just very few minor evidences. I hope to find some more.

Dorothee, just remember not to fall into "polyglot trap".

I know nothing about Maltese but it seems to be a hybrid language, a mix of Arabic, Italian and English. with Arabic grammar but a lot of western words.
You could also theoretically argue that someone writing in Maltese inserted some Latin, Greek or Hebrew words into his text.

Reading Voynichese words if you just substitute oroginal signs for letters is extremely hard and many people claim it will never work. People who tried it were never able to get consistent, grammatical reading in any language. So some of them went "polyglot" path claiming that Voynich Manuscript was written in a mix of languages or in some unknown dialect where readings of the words are only slightly similar to the "normal" words.

You can check the solution of Gerard Cheshire as perfect example of it: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

So be prepared that if you present a text being a mix of many languages, without any grammar and sounding like the scribe was on acid then people here just won't accept it.