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Cross-Language Substitution Cipher: An Approach of the Voynich Manuscript

Authors: Elie Duthoo

The Voynich Manuscript (VMS) is an illustrated hand-written document carbon-dated in the early 15th century. This paper aims at providing a statistically robust method for translating voynichese, the language used in the VMS. We will first provide a set of statistical properties that can be applied to any tokenizable language with sub-token elements, apply it to Universal Dependencies (UD) dataset plus VMS (V101 transliteration) to see how it compares to the 157 corpora written in 90 different languages from UD. In a second phase we will provide an algorithm to map characters from one language to characters from another language, and we will apply it to the 158 corpora we have in our possession to measure its quality. We managed to attack more than 60% of UD corpora with this method though results for VMS don't appear to be usable.

Comments: 13 Pages. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license

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[v1] 2020-03-02 04:40:16
[v2] 2020-03-03 06:11:32
[v3] 2020-03-05 16:48:12

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