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Is it a natural language?

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A natural language spelled letter by letterOne of 103 languages under simple substitutionWhatever the symbols are, the word sequence carries information the way a language's…A list-like text: recipes, index, glossaryRepeated multi-word phrases occur as in natural-language prose (test T4d).

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Still possible: Not tested enough to call either wayHeavily abbreviated Latin or vernacular

The text is a heavily abbreviated or shorthand rendering of Latin or a vernacular, with word ends replaced by a small set of suspension signs.

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Ruled out: The evidence contradicts itA natural language spelled letter by letter

The text is a natural language written plainly in an alphabet (one symbol ≈ one sound).

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Ruled out: The evidence contradicts itOne of 103 languages under simple substitution

The text is one of 103 languages under a one-to-one glyph-to-letter substitution (with or without vowels).

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Ruled out: The evidence contradicts itWhatever the symbols are, the word sequence carries information the way a language's…

Whatever the symbols are, the word sequence carries information the way a language's does: knowing the previous words reduces the cost of the next by as much as it does in attested languages (the cross-linguistic law of Bentz et al. 2017…

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Ruled out: The evidence contradicts itA list-like text: recipes, index, glossary

The plaintext is a list-like text (recipes, an index, a glossary, a star catalogue), whose items carry little word order, so that the manuscript's weak word order is a property of the genre rather than of the encoding.

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Ruled out: The evidence contradicts itRepeated multi-word phrases occur as in natural-language prose (test T4d).

Repeated multi-word phrases occur as in natural-language prose (test T4d).

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