Inside the Voynich Network: graph analysis

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Here are the plots with Jorge Stolfi's "Dom Casmurro's" and the text in Manx from Ptrarsi.

                       

The four Dom Casmurro versions—old Portuguese, modern Portuguese, phonetic Portuguese, and Spanish—behave almost the same. Their networks have very similar clustering, path length, and degree patterns. That’s expected, since they express the same content and share close grammatical roots. The Spanish version is only slightly denser, likely because Spanish uses more short function words, just as Jorge predicted.

Compared with Lazarillo de Tormes, Dom Casmurro is more uniform and modern in structure. Lazarillo shows greater lexical variety and less repetition, giving it a sparser, more modular network. This can be the difference between current Spanish and older, as the older has a less standardized syntax (16th-century Spanish) and it has a heavier use of subordinate clauses.

The Manx text is clearly different (but very away from the Voynich). It forms a compact network with shorter paths and higher clustering. It seems to be a morphologically rich language.