The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

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Thus we are left with (a) each word of the Voynichese language is a single syllable, or (b) the words of the Voy ni che se lan gua ge were split into syllables as part of the encoding, or © the encryption algorithm maps words of arbitrary length to strings of bounded length, with a syllable-like structure.

With regard to option (b), assumling Latin is typical (I picked Latin because the rules for breaking Latin words into syllables are straightforward), while the resulting "vocabulary" is highly Zipfian the type/token ration is way too low compared to the Voynich text because the total number of possible syllables is relatively limited -- you add types much less frequently as the number of tokens grows.