# Matlach 2022: The Voynich manuscript: Symbol roles revisited

> Vladimír Matlach, Barbora Anna Janečková, Daniel Dostál, 2022. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The linguistics and datasets survey reviews it…

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# The Voynich manuscript: Symbol roles revisited

Vladimír Matlach, Barbora Anna Janečková, Daniel Dostál, 2022. _PLOS ONE_.

Uses simple descriptive statistics on how Voynich symbols behave to pick out a group that may be compounds or ligatures, suggesting a smaller true alphabet, and proposes a steganographic encoding to explain it.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1371/journal.pone.0260948](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260948)** Checked against the original0

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Matlach, V., Janečková, B. A., & Dostál, D. (2022). The Voynich manuscript: Symbol roles revisited. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260948
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