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.

Those quotation marks are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

This is also starting to look like it would be better off in the Chinese thread.