Analysis of Letter Frequency Distribution in the Voynich Manuscript
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The Voynich manuscript is one of the biggest mysteries in linguistic science. Although a lot of researches are being made, the author, the origin and the content of the manuscript still remain unknown. In this work letter frequency distributions of about 300 languages were compared to one of the language in the Voynich manuscript. The study shows the most similar languages according to this characteristics of a natural language.
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