02-02-2026, 12:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-02-2026, 12:40 AM by Jorge_Stolfi.)
(01-02-2026, 11:46 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.as your own examples show, regular spelling variation cannot account for Voynichese statistics
I gave those extreme examples only to show how spelling affects the character entropy.
But here is what I think are the actual characters of the Voynichese script:
{q} {o} {a} {y} {d} {r} {l} {s}
{ch} {che} {sh} {she} {ee} {eee}
{k} {ke} {t} {te} {p} {pe} {f} {fe}
{ckh} {ckhh} {ckhe} {ckhhe}
{cth} {cthh} {cthe} {cthhe}
{cph} {cphh} {cphe} {cphhe}
{cfh} {cfhh} {cfhe} {cfhhe}
{n} {in} {iin} {iiin}
{m} {im} {iim} {iiim}
{ir} {iir} {iiir}
Except that the circles {o} {y} and maybe {a} may be modifiers for the above, so instead of just {ch} one may have also {cho} and maybe {chy}, and instead of just {che} one have also {cheo} and {chey}, and instead of just {d} one may have also {do} or {dy}, etc.
If one computes the character (or digraph) entropy of Voynichese by counting each of those elements as "one character", one will get a much higher entropy per "character" than if one computes it using EVA letters as the "characters". Possibly twice as much, or more.
All the best, --stolfi



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