[split] The Zipf law and the Voynich Manuscript

[Stefan Wirtz_2]

[..]The result I got is not a little lower than 1/n, but 0.5, 0.6/n, which results in a semi-flat curve. I asked if the result was consistent with Zipf's law and it replied that the Voynich script is a structured system but not comparable to a natural language.
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If you do Zipf to your local telephone book, which surely contains the whole alphabet, numericals and lots of words, it will return "Garcia" and "Lopez" as the most frequent words in whole text probably.
But this does not exclude or confirm Spanish being a natural language.

This example is rather extreme, as phonebooks are very specialized.
But many books are specialized somehow.

So Zipf (or entropy) cannot give the final judgement about an underlying language, just some answers about the text itself.
And these may not help with anything.