[split] The Zipf law and the Voynich Manuscript

[ReneZ]

Antonio, according to your interpretation of Zipf's law, which you expect to hold rather strictly for the most frequent three or four words in a text, essentially NO text in any language is a language.

What Gabriel and Stolfi have long understood, and what Stolfi's graphs show, is that normal texts in real language tend to deviate for the most frequent words. Their frequencies are a bit below the 1/n prediction. 

All of this assumes that the texts are sufficiently long.

In that sense, the Voynich MS text behaves just like real language.