[split] The Zipf law and the Voynich Manuscript

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Russian, Czech, Croatian, ..., Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Hebrew and, with limits, Arabic are or were present in wide areas of Europe during the 15th century and before.
Added with Mongolian, and it is quite possible that you can count all caucasian languages (which is an own world of languages itself) as well into the options. VMS alphabet reminds a bit of some georgian letters, for example.

Yep. If we extend the sense of "Europe" to "all countries with a significant Christian presence in the 1400s", then we must include also Albanian (indo-European, but with articles attached to the end of words), Armenian (ditto), Georgian (actually 4 languages - Georgian proper, Svan, Laz, and Mingrelian -- not Indo-Europen and without articles).  I also forgot to mention Irish Gaelic (eight different definite artilcles, written separately now but could be considered part of the next word).  And there may have been other minority languages inside Russia...

All the best, --jorge