12-05-2018, 10:34 PM
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Written languages have different properties, manifesting themselves as different distributions of glyphs on a PCA plot. Here, I've plotted Hungarian, Italian, a mystery language, the Voynich Manuscript, Mandarin Chinese encoded as Pinyin, and Latin. I've also presented an argument that the cryptographic techniques available at the time of the VMS's creation wouldn't change a PCA plot significantly (but a transposition cipher would). I've explained how the plots work.
None of the plots for any language I've tried so far closely matches the Voynichese plot, but perhaps you have a language in mind you think might be worth trying. If so, I need text (preferably in an phonetic alphabetic script) and a list of glyphs. The text doesn't have to be very long -- a few pages is enough. Alternatively, if you can think of an encoding method which might go from (for example) Italian into Voynichese, I could use encoded text as input and see whether that results in a match.
This should expedite the identification/rejection of candidate plaintext languages and encryption methods. Even if the VMS text is meaningless, I would still expect the scribes to have pronounced it, and EVA is certainly pronounceable (but doesn't resemble any known language).
Written languages have different properties, manifesting themselves as different distributions of glyphs on a PCA plot. Here, I've plotted Hungarian, Italian, a mystery language, the Voynich Manuscript, Mandarin Chinese encoded as Pinyin, and Latin. I've also presented an argument that the cryptographic techniques available at the time of the VMS's creation wouldn't change a PCA plot significantly (but a transposition cipher would). I've explained how the plots work.
None of the plots for any language I've tried so far closely matches the Voynichese plot, but perhaps you have a language in mind you think might be worth trying. If so, I need text (preferably in an phonetic alphabetic script) and a list of glyphs. The text doesn't have to be very long -- a few pages is enough. Alternatively, if you can think of an encoding method which might go from (for example) Italian into Voynichese, I could use encoded text as input and see whether that results in a match.
This should expedite the identification/rejection of candidate plaintext languages and encryption methods. Even if the VMS text is meaningless, I would still expect the scribes to have pronounced it, and EVA is certainly pronounceable (but doesn't resemble any known language).
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