For further info, if anyone is interested, Stephen Bax claimed a decade ago to partially decode the manuscript; here’s a video with his reasoning, as well as the paper he released. Sadly Bax passed away in 2017 (may he rest in peace), so the work was left incomplete.

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    It’s also notable for the repetitive strings it produces that is very unlike most (all?) known languages, such as the famous: “qokeedy qokedy shedy tchedy […] qokal otedy qokedy qokedy dal qokedy qokedy rgam.”

    It’s also possible the manuscript could contain two (or more) different languages, or different encoding methods, depending on what it is. See: https://www.voynich.nu/extra/lang.html