A Glyph Is Not a Letter, a Token Is Not a Word, a Space Is Not a Space

L. Rozanova, A. Temerev, 2026.

An arXiv preprint arguing that the obvious units of Voynichese do not behave as their names suggest: glyphs are not letters, tokens are not words and spaces are not word spaces.

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What it's used for here

The surveys take from it the measurements any cipher hypothesis must reproduce, such as the low conditional entropy and the 70% singleton rate, and its finding that a published generator and a Voynich-imitating cipher each fail some of them.

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Reading Without a Key

The book, version 2.0

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6 methods surveys

Cryptanalysis, mathematics, linguistics, mixed keys, inductive methods, encoding procedures

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Cite it

Rozanova, L., & Temerev, A. (2026). A Glyph Is Not a Letter, a Token Is Not a Word, a Space Is Not a Space.

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  year = {2026}
}

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Rozanova, L. and A. Temerev. “A Glyph Is Not a Letter, a Token Is Not a Word, a Space Is Not a Space.” 2026.