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Evidence · Voynich Manuscript

No one-to-one substitution of a known language fits

One-to-one substitution of Latin, Italian, German or English fails on controls-validated search; no language of 103 transfers to held-out quires.

EstablishedNegative0

What it bears on 2 answers

Latin or a vernacular under a table cipher
Still possible · weighs some · H-TH-CIPHER
AGAINST
One of 103 languages under simple substitution
Ruled out · weighs heavily · H-LANG-SUBST
AGAINST

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Mysteries Department. (2026). No one-to-one substitution of a known language fits [Evidence EVD0D8GDM4R4AB8]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0D8GDM4R4AB8
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