[split] The Zipf law and the Voynich Manuscript

[Antonio García Jiménez]

Let's not digress and get back to the topic of this thread.

Anyone with word frequency data for the EVA transliteration can verify that the Voynich script does not follow the classic Zipf law pattern. The frequency falls very slowly and the resulting curve is quite flat, not at all what theory predicted.

The Voynich script, therefore, does not behave like a natural language. It could be said that the script follows a flat Zipf, but that only demonstrates the prejudice of wanting to assimilate the Voynich script to a natural language.

Of course the script has a structure, but not the one that corresponds to a natural language.