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Re: Unknown Language Identifier!

From:Luís Henrique <luisb@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 30, 2001, 18:23
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:20:14 -0600, Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
wrote:

>This assumes the Voynich Ms is written in alphabet characters
Which is probably not true. Last I read there seem to be some probability that the "words" are indeed syllables and that each letter takes two characters.
>and is a natural language. Myself, I suspect a conlang.
It could still be matched against Hildegard's Ignota Lingua, if we could convince the author or the identifier to include it in his database. (But, then, the prize is already going being divided by three...) What other conlangs were knonw at that time?
>I bet it's an herbal.
Most probably. Luís Henrique