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Voynich Manuscript Analysis Suggests Weak Linguistic Structure or Extensive Miscopying

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Researchers have investigated the Voynich manuscript, a 15th-century text in an undeciphered script, to determine if its content holds linguistic meaning or is merely a meaningless copy. By creating programs to simulate both a real language behind a cipher and a scribe's copying process, they found that the copying model better predicted certain statistical patterns in the text. However, ciphers with multiple keys or those encoding word classes also matched these statistics, indicating that word statistics alone are insufficient for a definitive conclusion. Further analysis revealed that the manuscript exhibits a linguistic pattern of word pairs sharing a line at half the strength of known languages, suggesting a weak linguistic structure or significant miscopying. AI

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    Does the Voynich Manuscript Mean Anything? Calibrated Tests Find Little Trace of Language

    The Voynich manuscript is a fifteenth-century book in a script that no one can read. One account holds that its text means nothing and that a scribe made it by copying his own words and changing them a little. The other holds that a real language lies hidden behind a cipher. We w…

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