Measuring Long-Range Structure in the Voynich Manuscript

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So perhaps, and I say this very cautiously, we could hypothesize that there are two languages (A and B), and within each of them different dialects or simmilar languages.

The two Currier "languages" are the most prominent statistical inconsistencies but the "dialects" are not different in nature: they modify the unigram/bigram/trigram/word frequencies perceptibly at the level of a section, a page. Sometimes, but it's less frequent, a single paragraph* or two strongly deviate from the rest of the page: there is no rule for the length of the apparently homogeneous blocks. Maybe nothing is homogeneous and we see only the most flagrant deviations, when some pattern or patterns suddenly become conspicuously frequent or absent. There are countless examples.

The inhomogeneities haven't been studied enough. I started a thread You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. looking for a statistical tool that would help detect and categorize them.

* An example of "dialect" shift between paragraphs (after the first word of the 2nd paragraph actually): the sudden change of frequent eod to frequent ed on f57r: