Voynich and African Writing Systems (Coptic)

["Lisa Karnan" <piscataqua@xxxxxxxxx>]

Writing systems are not independent of language.  The scribes of the Voynich MMS could, certainly, have used a far-flung writting system to represent ordinary Latin but then we're stuck with the problem of transmission: how did they learn said far-flung script?  And if this hypothesis is true, are they using the far-flung script accurately?
If so, the base language would still be identifiable as Latin.

Coptic (Hellenistic Egyptian written in an adapted Greek alphabet) looks terribly outlandish at first blush, but Greek loan-words -- even badly spelled ones -- are still clearly Greek.

It would help immensely to know what language the Voynich MMS was trying to represent -- Champillion learned as much as he could about Egyptian (including studying Coptic) before he deciphered hieroglyphics:  to assume hieroglyphics represented Greek instead of Egyptian would have been a dire false start.

Lisa
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