Directionality of the Voynich Script

Christophe Parisel, 2025. arXiv.

An arXiv preprint that tests the reading direction of the Voynich script by comparing n-gram perplexity read forwards and backwards.

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What it's used for here

The surveys cite it as prior work on reading direction and, with its 2026 sequel and Rozanova and Temerev, as the current work on what the text's units are.

Cited by on this site 3 records

3 methods surveys

Signal processing, linguistics, inductive methods

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Cite it

Parisel, C. (2025). Directionality of the Voynich Script. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10573

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Parisel, Christophe. “Directionality of the Voynich Script.” arXiv (2025).