Voynichese is a numeric cipher?

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Hence my claim that, if it was a plain text in any "European" language (including Russian, Finnish, Basque, Turkish, Arabic, and Hebrew) , just in a funky alphabet and orthography, it would have been cracked long ago.

All the best, --stolfi

I agree with you on this. Were the VMS a meaningful text written in a major, well-attested (circum)European language just in a funky alphabet and orthography (I would also add with abbreviations and/or substitutions) it would much probably have been cracked by now. I'd even go as far as saying that even among not-so-well-attested languages many (ie.: most Romance languages) would have been cracked.

In general, this argument is also flawed, since Cryptos is also written in “some kind of European” language.
When it comes to decryption, language alone cannot be the immediate key to it if we can’t say anything about the encryption algorithm itself.