01-02-2026, 06:48 PM
@ Koen
Actually I’m not claiming that Bavarian by itself explains the low character entropy.
My point is that Bavarian lowers the amount of entropy the cipher must eliminate in order to reach a Voynich-like Style.
This works because Bavarian (especially in a strongly reduced phonetic spelling) has very short word stems, has many monosyllabic function and content words,
already shows strong vowel reduction, and, in addition, frequent consonant clusters, which can be captured by "class markers" such as Gallows.
As a result, the information per word is concentrated in very few segments, allowing a historically plausible substitution system to collapse the character variability without resorting to highly artificial and anachronistic cipher structures.
Actually I’m not claiming that Bavarian by itself explains the low character entropy.
My point is that Bavarian lowers the amount of entropy the cipher must eliminate in order to reach a Voynich-like Style.
This works because Bavarian (especially in a strongly reduced phonetic spelling) has very short word stems, has many monosyllabic function and content words,
already shows strong vowel reduction, and, in addition, frequent consonant clusters, which can be captured by "class markers" such as Gallows.
As a result, the information per word is concentrated in very few segments, allowing a historically plausible substitution system to collapse the character variability without resorting to highly artificial and anachronistic cipher structures.