"...Even though Voynichese looks like a language, this does not mean it is not a cipher..."
If the "o" characters were nulls and the "a" characters represent consonants and the spaces between word-tokens were contrived (I don't want to use the word "arbitrary" because they're not) then it wouldn't look very much like a language. It's the positioning of the Latin "a" and "o" that give it a perhaps deceptive familiarity.
If the "o" characters were nulls and the "a" characters represent consonants and the spaces between word-tokens were contrived (I don't want to use the word "arbitrary" because they're not) then it wouldn't look very much like a language. It's the positioning of the Latin "a" and "o" that give it a perhaps deceptive familiarity.