03-11-2022, 02:55 PM
It could an invented language + cipher or shorthand, at most a natural language + cipher, where cipher can be encryption or further encoding.
While some indicators like Zipf do say that Voynichese does have some characteristics and behavior of a natural language, there are many more indicators that it really is not.
For me it is quite difficult to look the vms glyphs as a sequence of sounds, but instead as a result of some kind of compression algorithm resulting in a nice binomial word length distribution. Encoding or encryption could generate something like it, quite rigid positional properties of the glyphs could indicate a not so advanced algorithm as you cloud expect from the period. Could result also repetitions of positions do not have many glyph choices, gallows could be helpers to ensure compression to keep things in a fixed range.
While some indicators like Zipf do say that Voynichese does have some characteristics and behavior of a natural language, there are many more indicators that it really is not.
For me it is quite difficult to look the vms glyphs as a sequence of sounds, but instead as a result of some kind of compression algorithm resulting in a nice binomial word length distribution. Encoding or encryption could generate something like it, quite rigid positional properties of the glyphs could indicate a not so advanced algorithm as you cloud expect from the period. Could result also repetitions of positions do not have many glyph choices, gallows could be helpers to ensure compression to keep things in a fixed range.