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Article

Summary

Since the Voynich Manuscripts display high level organized properties, the authors believe it is encoded natural language rather than gibbcrish. Another possible explanation is the manuscript could be using conlang, which morphosuntactically bases on natural languages. 

Method
This article analyzed the manuscirpt using statistics using a mapping between Voynich characters and Extended Voynaich Alphabet. 

From results of the Sukhotin algorithm, the researchers identifies 4 vowels (a,o,e,i)