The two attached histograms are based on the length of word occurrences (not word "types" as in Rene's graph discussed above).
Latin has a spike for words 2 characters long. These correspond to a number of hugely frequent particles like prepositions (in, ex, ab, de...), conjunctions (et, ac...), pronouns (id, tu, me...).
Latin also has a long tail of long words, which of course get less frequent with the growing of length. In the vulgate, 9% of the words are 10 or more characters long.
Voynichese has a simpler distribution, with a single peak corresponding to length 5 (corresponding to the central, but secondary, peak for Latin). Long words are rarer: less than 1% are 10 or more characters long.
The mapping from Voynichese to Latin should stretch the histogram in two opposite directions, possibly by making short words shorter and long words longer.
Latin has a spike for words 2 characters long. These correspond to a number of hugely frequent particles like prepositions (in, ex, ab, de...), conjunctions (et, ac...), pronouns (id, tu, me...).
Latin also has a long tail of long words, which of course get less frequent with the growing of length. In the vulgate, 9% of the words are 10 or more characters long.
Voynichese has a simpler distribution, with a single peak corresponding to length 5 (corresponding to the central, but secondary, peak for Latin). Long words are rarer: less than 1% are 10 or more characters long.
The mapping from Voynichese to Latin should stretch the histogram in two opposite directions, possibly by making short words shorter and long words longer.
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