Voynich ManuscriptF-017
Evidence · Voynich Manuscript
Word order carries almost no information
Word order is worth 0.42 bits per word against 1.34-4.10 for 102 languages; on held-out pages the previous word makes the next harder to predict.
What it bears on 7 answers
A constructed philosophical language (v0.1)
AGAINSTStill possible · weighs some · H-V01-CONLANG
A mnemonic or notational system
FORRuled out · weighs some · H-G-MNEMONIC
A natural language in an invented script
AGAINSTStill possible · weighs heavily · H-TH-LANG
Heavily abbreviated Latin or vernacular
AGAINSTStill possible · weighs heavily · H-G-ABBREVIATION
No plaintext: a procedure produced it
FORStill possible · weighs some · H-TH-GENERATED
No plaintext: composed freely by hand
FORStill possible · weighs some · H-TH-GLOSSOLALIA
Whatever the symbols are, the word sequence carries information the way a language's…
AGAINSTRuled out · weighs heavily · H-LANG-WORDLEVEL
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). Word order carries almost no information [Evidence EVD0D8GDN405FYV]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0D8GDN405FYV
@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0d8gdn405fyv,
title = {Word order carries almost no information},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0D8GDN405FYV},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0D8GDN405FYV}
}