Syllables at the end of a line in VMS

[bi3mw]

Voynich Manuscript: (alphabet mapped to latin)

If you know where vowels are, good for you.

Well, "know" is probably a bit high

When mapping the VMS, I simply replaced the letters with correspondingly frequent letters in Latin texts.

cat Voynich_full_clean01.txt | tr oehyacdiklrstnqpmfgxzv IEUTASRNMOCDLPBQGHFXYZ

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This presupposes, of course, that Latin is the correct assumption. Interestingly, the value is even higher if you simply keep the original alphabet. What one could do as an experiment is to change the original alphabet incrementally until one gets a value of, say, over 2. Letter frequencies from other ( medieval ) texts could be taken as a template. This would have to be done with a program, since it would be a bit tedious to do it by hand. - If this were to succeed, my basic assumption would of course be disproved.

Voynich Manuscript ( with original alphabet )
Total letters and spaces: 234658
Total syllables: 63340
Syllable percentage: 26.992474154%
Average syllables per word: 1.671857678
Total syllables in last words of lines: 9140

Average syllables per line ( last words ): 1.751964731