![]() On the other hand, since lost languages are unimportant economically, very little is known about many of them what information exists is usually locked up in obscure manuscripts, not available online while a native speaker would obviously know their language well. In 2015, cryptography is vitally important to the world economy hence, we know far more about cryptography (and associated disciplines like steganography) than the ancients did. The third major reason is one of information asymmetry. The second reason is prior probabilities: the number of manuscripts written in languages that now can’t be read (such as Etruscan or Linear A) is pretty large, while the number of manuscripts written entirely in ciphers is very small. Since Zipf’s Law wasn’t discovered until the 20th century, it would have been impossible to deliberately fake. ![]() The first major reason is that Voynich writing passes most known statistical tests for natural languages, such as Zipf’s Law. Of course, I haven’t solved the mystery, but I’ve spent a few weeks thinking about it over the last couple of years.Īfter weighing the evidence, it seems extremely likely that the Voynich is simply written in an unknown natural language, rather than a cipher, a code, or more exotic options listed by Wikipedia. So many crazy theories have been proposed that one writer invented the Voynich Bullshit Index to score them. It’s a book from the 15th century, but no one has been able to identify what language it’s written in, or even what alphabet it uses. The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most famous mysteries in the world.
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