Here's a graph over the same data as presented in previous posts, but with the addition of Walla's German text. I have only included the Voynich manuscript (VM), Walla's original text and Walla's German text (Ger). All upper-case characters were converted to lower-case for Walla's texts.
Walla's german text has 675 unique words, and the total number of words is 1144, making the type-token ratio 59%. The Voynich manuscript has a ratio of 24% but it is a much longer text, and the re-use of the same words previously written is normally more frequent as text is running longer for text in any language over a certain limit (take for instance the ratio just a sentence in English, and it would probably be close to 100%).
Anyway, the Voynich manuscript still differs from Walla's texts with its comparatively high percentage of repeated two-word sequences IMO (which number is more similar with those of other 'normal' texts in other languages). But similarly to the number of unique words, this could be an effect of the larger text size. Furthermore. it has very small percentage of sequences longer than that. The percentage of repeated triplets and quadruplets for Walla's German text are similar to the VM data (although the actual numbers of triplets and quadruplets are only 4 and 1, respectively, so there is not a very high confidence in these data for Walla's German text, which, once again, is related to the limited size the text).
Walla's german text has 675 unique words, and the total number of words is 1144, making the type-token ratio 59%. The Voynich manuscript has a ratio of 24% but it is a much longer text, and the re-use of the same words previously written is normally more frequent as text is running longer for text in any language over a certain limit (take for instance the ratio just a sentence in English, and it would probably be close to 100%).
Anyway, the Voynich manuscript still differs from Walla's texts with its comparatively high percentage of repeated two-word sequences IMO (which number is more similar with those of other 'normal' texts in other languages). But similarly to the number of unique words, this could be an effect of the larger text size. Furthermore. it has very small percentage of sequences longer than that. The percentage of repeated triplets and quadruplets for Walla's German text are similar to the VM data (although the actual numbers of triplets and quadruplets are only 4 and 1, respectively, so there is not a very high confidence in these data for Walla's German text, which, once again, is related to the limited size the text).