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by dane-pgp 2109 days ago
For what it's worth, there has been some work on parsing Voynich words into syllables, which might be a more helpful level to work at.

"Taking into account words which couldn’t be syllabified (2.6%), words with more than three syllables (0.4%) and words with rank errors (1%) we can see that the Body Rank Order theory accounts for 96% of all word types with more than four tokens."

https://agnosticvoynich.wordpress.com/2019/05/06/a-new-word-...

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It's well-known that there's a grammar of glyphs within "words" (i.e. groups of glyphs separated by spaces), but it's premature to identify syllables. Most words seem to have prefixes and suffixes, without anything in between.