02-02-2026, 12:04 AM
(01-02-2026, 01:03 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(01-02-2026, 01:15 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The low conditional entropy (or the bigram entropy) of the Voynich text is a consequence of this word structure
The character entropy is not significant because it depends on the spelling system, which we do not know. The low entropy does not imply "it is not European". It could be simply the result of many phonemes being encoded with 2 or 3 EVA characters (like German using "sch" for the "ʃ" sound).
All the best, --stolfi
As Koen also said, it is significant as it tells us something about what the characters could or could not be.
Indeed, as I tried to point out earlier in reply to JoJo_Jost, this does not say anthing about the source language.
Whatever was done to it, obfuscates the differences between such different source languages.
A verbose encryption is a possible explanation. Or perhaps potential is the better word, as we don't know if it is really possible.