Experimental replica of VMS properties with a given corpus

[geoffreycaveney]

When checking the word length in the VMS I received a very strange result. That does not look like one natural language to me, but as something "constructed". The result is the following:


Does anyone know any natural language that causes a similar result ? I always get much flatter, more homogeneous curves.

It could still be natural language, but the author could have placed Voynichese word breaks in different places than the natural language's word breaks. Prefixes and/or suffixes could be written as separate words, while short prepositions, conjunctions, and particles could be written as part of the following word. Also, just as in scripts like Arabic, Persian, and Syriac/Aramaic, certain letters are never "connected" to the following letter, the author could have automatically placed a Voynichese word break after certain characters. But despite all of these irregularities in the word breaks, it could still represent natural language.

Geoffrey