This histogram compares the frequency of the last character in three sets of Latin words:
The second and third sets are mostly made of nouns in the nominative case. The Passion set is clearly too small to provide meaningful statistics. What is peculiar in this set is that it contains several plural nouns: this is also clear from the illustrations, with two identical objects appearing in a single cell. This is the reason why -i is more frequent in the Passion labels than in Matthioli (where almost all titles are made of singular nouns and adjectives).
The high value for -t in the plain text, unmatched in the labels, is due to particles like "et" "aut" "ut" and to verbs (the third person ending typically ends by -t).
This other histogram is about characters in the VMS (independent of character position inside words). Graphs for prefixes and suffixes were discussed You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
K T P F stand for the benched-gallows
C S for the benches
I E for i and e sequences
The overall frequency of gallows appears to be close in the two sets.
On the other hand, -in is less frequent in labels.
Also benches, benched-gallows and e-sequences are less frequent in labels: since [e] is strongly correlated with benches and benched-gallows, it is not surprising that a reduction in the first two groups co-occurs with a reduction of its occurrences.
According to Stolfi, the top 10 most frequent words are:
886 daiin
548 ol
515 chedy
462 aiin
437 shedy
403 chol
365 or
360 ar
348 chey
338 dar
totalling 4662 occurrences, about 12% of Voynichese tokens.
Using Zandbergen-Landini classification, in the more than 1000 words that appear in the labels, these 10 frequent words appear 14 times: 1.4%. One order of magnitude less than their average frequency.
In the about 850 single-word labels (i.e. ignoring labels that are made of more than a single word) there are only 2 occurrences of the top 10 words (0.2%):
<f73r.30,&Lz> ar (a star-nymph in Sagittarius)
<f99r.35,@Lf> dar (a plant label that Takahashi transcribes "dor")
One can speculate that maybe the labels are nouns/adjectives, while the top 10 most frequent words are some kind of "function words".
Anyway (unless I have made some major mistake) we can say that the set of one-word labels is almost totally disjoint from the set of the 10 most frequent words.
- the text of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
- the upper-case titles (pseudo-labels) in Matthioli's first book
- the labels in the image of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
The second and third sets are mostly made of nouns in the nominative case. The Passion set is clearly too small to provide meaningful statistics. What is peculiar in this set is that it contains several plural nouns: this is also clear from the illustrations, with two identical objects appearing in a single cell. This is the reason why -i is more frequent in the Passion labels than in Matthioli (where almost all titles are made of singular nouns and adjectives).
The high value for -t in the plain text, unmatched in the labels, is due to particles like "et" "aut" "ut" and to verbs (the third person ending typically ends by -t).
This other histogram is about characters in the VMS (independent of character position inside words). Graphs for prefixes and suffixes were discussed You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
K T P F stand for the benched-gallows
C S for the benches
I E for i and e sequences
The overall frequency of gallows appears to be close in the two sets.
On the other hand, -in is less frequent in labels.
Also benches, benched-gallows and e-sequences are less frequent in labels: since [e] is strongly correlated with benches and benched-gallows, it is not surprising that a reduction in the first two groups co-occurs with a reduction of its occurrences.
According to Stolfi, the top 10 most frequent words are:
886 daiin
548 ol
515 chedy
462 aiin
437 shedy
403 chol
365 or
360 ar
348 chey
338 dar
totalling 4662 occurrences, about 12% of Voynichese tokens.
Using Zandbergen-Landini classification, in the more than 1000 words that appear in the labels, these 10 frequent words appear 14 times: 1.4%. One order of magnitude less than their average frequency.
In the about 850 single-word labels (i.e. ignoring labels that are made of more than a single word) there are only 2 occurrences of the top 10 words (0.2%):
<f73r.30,&Lz> ar (a star-nymph in Sagittarius)
<f99r.35,@Lf> dar (a plant label that Takahashi transcribes "dor")
One can speculate that maybe the labels are nouns/adjectives, while the top 10 most frequent words are some kind of "function words".
Anyway (unless I have made some major mistake) we can say that the set of one-word labels is almost totally disjoint from the set of the 10 most frequent words.
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