More here:
http://voynichbirths.blogspot.com/2014/12/follow-on-facebook-functiond-s-id-var.html

The pages depict female heliocentric star charts resembling Nordic brooches. They also depict kolovrats, octagrams, sauna/banya, torcs, a seidr staff, the sun cross symbol, intercalary year, red conical roofs, onion domes, plants from the northern hemisphere, a landscape resembling the Ruskeala marble caves, zaftig fair blond women, a Permic-like lizard of the underworld, the pike of Tuonela, and runic glyphs (comparable to those found in Icelandic magic books).

Some visual designs are reminiscent of a Sami shamanic drum, Karelian embroidery, and Vologda lace. The herbal powder receptacles are modified sewing necessaires in the tradition of north European treenware.

All of this points to core elements of north European culture that can be found in Scandinavian, Finno-Ugric, north Germanic, and to some extent Celtic traditions. These belief systems go back thousands of years.

Thats only any good if you assume the text was european in origin.
Latest theory is it may actually be in an extinct dialect of the Mexican language Nahuatl.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24987-mexican-plants-could-break-code-on-gibberish-manuscript.html

http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=54124
(Dont ask me why that second link is on a catholic website !)

I would have thought the book’s ‘secrets’ to be obvious. Human nature does not change, my friends. If someone looked back at /us/ in five-hundred or so years, what would a book; illegible to the naked eye, filled with odd annotations and colorful pictures be?

Ohhai, Dungeons and Dragons player manual~ I see that your druid just lost five mana points due to fatigue.

[[I do hope you wonderful folks got that reference. If not, the joke originated on xkcd.]]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus

As stated the Egyptian writings were frustrating since there was no foundation to work from as it was a dead and forgotten language. The only reason Champollion solved the mystery was when he got a hold of the Rosette Stone. It was discovered by chance when a French officer found it during Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt during 1799. The stone had a decree by Ptolemy V engraved in it in 196 BC. The decree was written in three languages, Grecian, Demotic, and Egyptian. This created a stepping-stone into the nuances of the Egyptian written language, or an important puzzle piece to unlock the whole.

Another language is Cretois, a dead language in all senses. The text they left behind, labeled Linear B, had confounded scholars until Ventris came up with what many considered a ridiculous hypothesis in the 1960s. First the writings were not Cretois but those of a Greek invader and that the signs did not stand for a thing like Egyptian but rather some sound as in phonetic writing. This daring leap was the key essential to cracking that nut.

Also without a native speaker you have to rely on samples matched with the word.

In Sioux the word peta means stone, yet the word pte is a buffalo cow. Now tatanka is a buffalo bull while tonkala is a mouse. Then there is gender specific words such as tuki which is only used by a women meaning “is that so”, or for the word “yes” men say hau while women say han.

Also the Sioux Nation has around fourteen different sub-groups, each with its own unique dialect and different spellings of common words.

So it is important to have some keystone to help decipher/decrypt the language.

The Don.

I woul say that the language in the book is saying something. Who would write so much and have it say nothing? keep in mind this is all written by hand…a meticulous process.

You guys said it. Accurite?

The only odd reason I don’t think this a complete hoax is why is there a normal statistical distribution of the lettering that follow Zipf’s law? If I was making up BS to sell a book several hundred years ago, I don’t think I’d predict that people may eventually run statistical analysis on it. The best guess I think I’ve heard is that it’s some unknown language not descended from Latin, but who knows.