Hypervector Analysis of the Voynich Manuscript

[ReneZ]

The s in the first half of Eva-sh is not related to the stand-alone Eva-s.

This is just the same as that the 't' in English 'the' is not related to the 't' in 'tea'.

It is just a writing convention. Icelandic is 'cleaner' in that respect.

English 'sh' and German 'sch' represent the same thing. This cannot be properly interpreted by the hypervector algorithm, but that is part of the uncertainty in the result that one has to live with.

In Voynichese we just do not know at all. Every experiment and every statistic is based on a list of assumptions, and we don't know how good they are.
The best one can do is to try different alphabets and see how much that affects the result.

I did this for entropy calculations, but there we have the advantage that entropy is insensitive to single-character substitutions. Then, the results were not too far apart.