[Article] Statistical regularity of European languages and Voynich Manuscript analysis

[-JKP-]

So basically they are arguing that it's preprocessed natural language.

I'm skeptical. Even polyglot with vowels and spaces removed does not explain the positional structure of the glyphs. In fact, it argues against it, since variety of consecutive glyph combinations would be increased rather than decreased (thus pushing it farther away from Voynichese) by their explanation.

[Davidsch]

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Mathematicians at the RAS Institute of Applied Mathematics concluded that the Voynich manuscript was written in two languages, except for the vowels, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. RIA Novosti. 
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After conducting a statistical analysis of the text, Russian experts believe it’s encrypted in the following way: vowels and spaces are removed from the text. The collection of symbols is united in a new text, bestrewed with spaces beforehand. They estimate that about 60 percent of the text is written in English or German, and the other part in one of the Romance languages – possibly Italian or Spanish, or even Latin.
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"Still, I don't know why understanding the text can be important today because, judging by the drawings, it explains in what part of the year you need to sow poppy seed in order to later obtain opium," said the research's co-author, Yuri Orlov, adding that it’s impossible to restore the entire text without vowels because there are various interpretations of the most important words. 

whoeha!!  

[davidjackson]

in what part of the year you need to sow poppy seed in order to later obtain opium

Guess that explains this figure then - the original opium den!

[zamolxe]

LOL

[bi3mw]

Guess that explains this figure then - the original opium den!

That's not so absurd. I always have to think of a soporific sponge. Recipe see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

[Monica Yokubinas]

The Hebrew word for poppy is "prg" the word is used about 37 times (i might have missed a few) on page 66r alone. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.