Subsitution key on f1r

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I came up with a theory based on the assumption that this is an author’s table.  Perhaps this is the original form of the cipher alphabet.

Everybody and their cousin have tried to replace Voynichese glyphs by Latin letters according to that table.  But of course the result does not look remotely like any language.

Any European language, that is.

But what if the result was in fact a phonetic rendition of 15th century Mandarin or Vietnamese?

I would kill myself.

All the best, --stolfi

(Diego de Landa, a Spanish missionary in Yucatan, recorded in his description of the land a "Mayan alphabet" that mapped each glyph to a Latin letter. But people who tried to read the inscriptions using that alphabet got nowhere.  Until the 1980s or so, the "consensus of the experts" -- imposed by a certain Eric Thompson, the Supreme Authority on Mayan writing -- was that Mayan script was a purely ideographic system and the glyphs represented gods.  Only after his death two young guys figured out that the writing was alphabetic of sorts and mostly recorded the sounds of the words.  Thompson's war against the "alphabetic theory" then made sort of sense, because he did not know the Mayan language...

And then it was seen that the Landa alphabet was in fact partially correct, if very incomplete.)