Voynichese is a numeric cipher?

[Jorge_Stolfi]

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.

The argument only excludes a simple substitution cipher of an "European" language.  It does not imply a "Chinese" language. It leaves open  a more complex encryption, gibberish, an invented language, etc.

All the best, --stolfi