Evidence of linguistic structure in the Voynich manuscript using spectral analysis

Gabriel Landini, 2001. Cryptologia 25(4): 275–295.

Applies spectral analysis to the Voynich text with spaces removed and finds properties typical of natural language rather than random strings, including a typical token length and signs that the line acts as a unit.

Voynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.1080/0161-110191889932Checked against the original0

What it's used for here

The book cites it for the text's fit to Zipf's law, and the bioinformatics survey treats its spectral and Hurst-exponent study as the closest earlier work to detrended fluctuation analysis.

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Cite it

Landini, G. (2001). Evidence of linguistic structure in the Voynich manuscript using spectral analysis. Cryptologia, 25(4), 275–295. https://doi.org/10.1080/0161-110191889932

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Landini, Gabriel. “Evidence of linguistic structure in the Voynich manuscript using spectral analysis.” Cryptologia 25, no. 4 (2001): 275–295. https://doi.org/10.1080/0161-110191889932.