Experiments with language corpora

[ReneZ]

Indeed, Korean and other 'exotic' languages are unlikely candidates.
The main interest in looking at all them is that this has hardly been done, or at least (in line with a post I just wrote elsewhere), this is not documented.

This follows the logic of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , which tries to visualise why the Voynich MS text is not a plain text in Latin or a similar known European language of the time, encoded with a simple substitution.

Since it isn't that, there are other options:
- it isn't meaningful text at all
- it is a straightforward encoding of some other (i.e. 'exotic') language
- it is a more complicated encoding of something.

Of course, 'exotic' doesn't equate with 'Far East'. It could be anything that is not typically found in the manuscripts written in the 15th Century.

In any case, doing the sort of bulk experiment as described by Marco (and indeed Hauer and Kondrak) should help a lot in 'ticking off' that option, or at least providing much more factual information about it.