Andalusian Arabic in the Voynich Manuscript – Statistical and Morphological

[eggyk]

Thank you for these detailed questions — they’re exactly the kind of scrutiny I hoped for. 

1. Baseline chance (3–5%): This figure comes from prior statistical work (e.g., Reddy & Knight, 2011) showing that random strings under simple substitution yield valid Arabic roots at about 3–5%. I used that as the comparison baseline for blind tests. I can provide the calculation references if helpful. 

2. Grammar skeleton and “qok-” words: You’re right that the skeleton defines recurring prefixes/suffixes. The key point is that these were derived statistically from Voynich text frequencies before consulting any medical sources. The “qok-” family was then tested against independent Arabic dosage formulas. So the matches aren’t just circular — they’re checked against external linguistic and medical patterns. 

3. Sentence line mismatch: Good catch. The EVA transcription used in the decoding is correct (“shol cthom chor cthy”), but the figure caption mistakenly highlighted the wrong line in the folio image. That was a formatting error in Version 5 of the paper, not a change in the decoded sentence itself. I’ll correct that in the next revision. 

I appreciate you pointing these out — replication and critique are the only way this hypothesis can be tested properly.

To be clear, it's obvious that you're responding with an AI generated answer. 

Additionally, many of your arabic translations happen to match, or closely resemble the EVA transcription. 

Examples:
dar -> دار (dar)
raiin -> ريحان (rayhan)

You also state that "qok" is something like "indeed all of the", with all 73 matching dosage instructions, but that "qokar" means افور (kafur)

Actually, you outright state that "qol" is "qala" and that it is "supported by phonetic match". The EVA transcription isn't an actual transcription of the real Voynichese letters (if they even are letters) so using it to match sounds is flawed as well. Can you tell me about the red flowers when you answer?