Why the Voynich Manuscript Might Not Be a Real Language

quimqu, 2025. The Voynich Ninja (forum).

A 2025 Voynich Ninja thread arguing from character n-gram models that the text may not be a natural language.

Voynich ManuscriptWeb pageChecked against the original0

What it's used for here

The bioinformatics survey cites its finding that Voynich perplexity is unusually low at high n-gram orders, along with commenters' point that this depends on the EVA encoding.

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quimqu (2025). Why the Voynich Manuscript Might Not Be a Real Language. The Voynich Ninja (forum). https://www.voynich.ninja/thread-4763.html

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