alternating patterns

[Koen G]

Thanks, Marco, again some interesting data. 

I find it hard to consider this without thinking about the apparent lack of function words at the same time, or at least their low absolute numbers. It seems like the examples you found from European languages always contain a mixture of lexical and non-lexical words. But can we say that something like that exists in Voynichese if we can't find decent candidates for words like "and, or, if, in, not...."?

Perhaps we might try to find samples of other languages and see if the absolute frequencies of the words in their repeating patterns are more like those found in Voynichese? Just brainstorming a bit.