Voynich Manuscript/Answer/ANS0D8FZXDP5R7Z

Whatever the symbols are, the word sequence carries information the way a language's…

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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 relating unigram entropy to entropy rate).

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data/analysis/framework/out/entropy_law.csv	3 KB	Open
data/analysis/framework/out/entropy_law_fit.csv	382 B	Open
data/analysis/framework/out/order_gain.csv	2 KB	Open

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answers	Is it a cipher of a known language?	QST08JG2PB04SQP
answers	Is it a natural language?	QST08JG27P80HMJ
against (from)	Word order carries almost no information	EVD0D8GDN405FYV
tests (from)	Entropy law and word-order gain: bits per word saved by word order (random word ids)	RUN0D8EPSZY2YMX
tests (from)	Entropy law and word-order gain: residual from the H1 vs entropy-rate law (word level), sd units	RUN0D8EPQA05W1E
tests (from)	Entropy law and word-order gain: residual from the H1 vs entropy-rate law (word level), sd units	RUN0D8EPRRW0QBA
tests (from)	Entropy law and word-order gain: residual from the H1 vs entropy-rate law (word level), sd units	RUN0D8EPSR412S6

Kind: hypothesis
Stage: tested
Tests: ["T12-entropy-law"]
Family: LANG/CIPHER
Origin: deductive
Result: Compression estimator (random word ids): law refit on 102 equal-length samples with word spaces, r = 0.98; the manuscript lies 3.7 sd above the line (its words are harder to predict than a language with its vocabulary would be), its word-shuffled form 4.5 sd. Gain from word order 0.42 bits per word, against 1.34 (the lowest language) to 4.10, median 2.39; no language is within three times of it. Japanese excluded: its sample has no word spaces, so its 'words' are phrases.
Predictions: ["the manuscript\u0027s entropy rate lies within 2 sd of the line fitted on 103 languages at its unigram entropy; the gain from word order (compressed size of the shuffled text minus the text) lies inside the language range"]
Ledger status: not-supported

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v1 · 25 Oct 2026 · Voynich Manuscript: sync from the research ledger

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