A brief summary of Voynichese spelling and grammar

[Jorge_Stolfi]

About my model for Voynichese words: here are some notes I collected back in 2004 or so, which may not be on my website yet because I did not get around to put them in a presentable format.

To begin, some digraph frequency tables.  (I suppose that many have posted similar data, but whatever).  The first two tables give the next- and prev-glyph frequencies in the text; that is, taking into account  the frequency of each word in the text.  The other two tables give the same prev- and next-glyph statistics for the lexicon; that is, each distinct word is counted once.

Either way, it is evident that some characters have similar frequencies.  As others have observed, p and f have similar prev-glyph frequencies as t and k (with both pairings seeming equally valid) but different next-glyph frequencies, that make it seem that p = te and f = ke or vice-versa. One should check whether the hooked-arm variants of p and f are different from the straight-arm variants.  On the other hand, cth, ckh, cph, and cfh have similar frequencies on both sides.