(04-09-2025, 07:45 PM)quimqu wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.No no, I meant that this not look good for Voynichese to be a language..
Well it's certainly not any straightforward cipher, that's evident.
We know that the encoding is a 1-to-many mapping; the ubiquitous ain, aiin, aiiin sequences are replaceable (f27v doesn't use them); the scribe has a certain amount of freedom to choose how to encode a piece of text, which can lower n-gram counts. We also know the 'echo' (reduplication and quasi-reduplication) is deliberate and spelling sometimes inconsistent, prefix o with a q and you can get a valid vord. Except for labels, we are certain a vord doesn't encode a whole plaintext word, so there's a chunking strategy that could potentially provide even more degrees of freedom to the scribe. And that's not even accounting for nulls - if all there's to LAAFU is preprending single letters at the line start and padding null sequences at the end, that too can mess up n-gram counts.