The Voynich Manuscript’s positional entropy collapse

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Unfortunately, with my first attempt at peer review, I didn't preprint this paper.  However, it does a comparison to English, Finnish, Esperanto, Latin, Naibbe cypher and shuffled controls.  It basically uses a train/test method where it will train on, for example, odd pages and then test on even pages or train one Voynich section (i.e. recipes) and test on another (i.e. herbal).

Considering all that has been determined about the structure of the Voynichese "words", it should be undisputed now that, IF Voynichese is conjectured to be some roughly phonetic encoding of a natural language -- like an original orthography, or a simple substitution cipher of the language's standard orthography -- then the language must be a monosyllabic one.  

Then why do people still compare it only against polysyllabic languages? 

And, for the millionth time: character-based statistics -- such as digraph frequencies and correlations, and per-character entropy -- are properties of the spelling and encryption system, NOT of the underlying language.  Any claim that "character statistic X is too low|high for a natural language" is nonsense.

All the best, --stolfi