The Voynich Manuscript is a fifteenth-century illustrated cipher manuscript. In this overview of recent approaches to the Voynich Manuscript, we summarize and evaluate current work on the language that underlies this document. We provide arguments for treating the document as natural language (rather than a medieval hoax) and show how statistical arguments can be made about the phonology, morphology, and structure of the document even though the contents remain undecipherable. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Linguistics, Volume 7 is January 14, 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

中文翻译：

---

伏尼契手稿的语言学

伏尼契手稿是 15 世纪的插图密码手稿。在这份对伏尼契手稿最新方法的概述中，我们总结和评估了当前关于作为本文档基础的语言的工作。我们提供了将文档视为自然语言（而不是中世纪的骗局）的论据，并展示了如何对文档的音韵、形态和结构进行统计论证，即使内容仍然无法破译。《语言学年度评论》第 7 卷的预计最终在线出版日期为 2021 年 1 月 14 日。有关修订后的估计，请参阅 http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates。