Vord length distribution

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One of the reasons why I find this result interesting is that it fits with You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..  According to her analysis, Voynichese words are constrained to include at most three syllables. I was not aware that such a constraint could result in a binomial distribution of dictionary word lengths.

I think it could be argued that otardaly, aralarar, ocfhorokear, otodaram, and oparairdly are four-syllable tokens ( You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ).

One might even argue that oparairdly is five syllables (it depends on how the last three glyphs are interpreted).

Also, on the rosettes folio: otochedy, okchdarar, otodeedy, opoeesal, okalolaiin, oparodam, saralkchedy [or s aralkchedy], opodchdal, sarchcphdy, oteoteedy, and possibly qolchedarar (half-space).

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There are, as always, some that are questionable. For example, in some languages (like English), sairodam or otaraiin might be interpreted as three syllables. In other languages (e.g., Indic languages), the "a" and "i" would be pronounced separately, thus creating four syllables.

The same consideration arises with tokens like qopcheedy. Is this qop-che-ed-y (4 syllables) or qop-chee-dy (3 syllables)? or ?
Is cheocphey interpreted as che-o-cphe-y? If so, it is 4 syllables.

   

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Folio You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and the other dense-text folios have wide spaces and half-spaces. If the narrow spaces are ignored, you get 4- and 5-syllable tokens like pchedalshdy, yteechypchy, qotalshesy, qokeolkeedy, qokeykeedy, qokeeylkeol, tcheyqokeey, qokalshedy, pcholkchdy, oteeykshy, rotailshedy, qokeodair, oieshedy, chealainor, otaryly, oteeochey, qopchedy, ocheocthey, qoctheody, okeeolkeeodain, fchedykchedy, shoefcheeykechy (some of which do not have half-spaces, they are definitely one token). This is only a sampling. There are many more.

Another complication is that dalalchdar (debatably 3 or 4 syllables) is written with half-spaces, so is it one token or three?


It is true, however, that the majority of tokens fit within a three-syllable range. However, if aiin is interpreted as a + iin or ai + in (as it would be in a number of languages), this would increase the syllable count of a significant number of tokens and some of them would be 5 syllables.