06-03-2025, 09:35 PM
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Artificial language or conlang threads.
The Voynich Ninja > Library and Research > Pre-Modern Cryptography > Voynichese a conlang?
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The Voynich Ninja > Voynich Research > Analysis of the text > The Constructed Language Hypothesis
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And from the wikipedia article.
"The peculiar internal structure of Voynich manuscript words led William F. Friedman to conjecture that the text could be a constructed language."
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ConLangs have a certain spillover into Codebook theory, as you noted. Idk if anyone has ever tried Codebook theory in a systematic way.
The section specific vocabularies seem a bit small for this but papers by Montemurro and also Bowern hint at topic related text.
Jorge Stolfi thought vms words could be numbers used for indexing in a codebook.
The Voynich Ninja > Library and Research > Pre-Modern Cryptography > Voynichese a conlang?
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The Voynich Ninja > Voynich Research > Analysis of the text > The Constructed Language Hypothesis
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And from the wikipedia article.
"The peculiar internal structure of Voynich manuscript words led William F. Friedman to conjecture that the text could be a constructed language."
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[Edit]
ConLangs have a certain spillover into Codebook theory, as you noted. Idk if anyone has ever tried Codebook theory in a systematic way.
The section specific vocabularies seem a bit small for this but papers by Montemurro and also Bowern hint at topic related text.
Jorge Stolfi thought vms words could be numbers used for indexing in a codebook.