By 2035, the Voynich Manuscript will be determined to be written in an archaic form of a language or dialect currently spoken in Italy.

Created by NathanMcKnight on 2011-11-24; known on 2035-01-01

• NathanMcKnight estimated 60% on 2011-11-24
• gwern estimated 20% and said “more or less complete decipherment, once you’ve nailed the language. skeptical it will be deciphered at all (40%) and italian dialects are only a few of many proposed languages (30%); 12%, double to compensate for your apparent expertise.” on 2011-11-24
• JoshuaZ estimated 8% on 2011-11-25
• Anubhav estimated 20% on 2011-11-25
• roxton estimated 15% and said “I think the odds of suddenly finding a Rosetta stone for these glyphs are far lower than 15%, but I have to balance that against the likelihood that NMK knows something I don’t.” on 2011-11-25
• Anubhav said “The nice thing about advances in information theory and computational linguistics is, our need for Rosetta stones decreases year on year.” on 2011-11-26
• Nic_Smith estimated 5% on 2011-11-27
• themusicgod1 estimated 46% on 2016-10-09
• pranomostro estimated 35% on 2018-12-19
• JoshuaZ estimated 4% on 2018-12-19