VMs: VMS & Italian triplet plots

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Taking sets of Italian and Voynich words and listing the successive
triplet ocurrances we get the following.

Poi.che.la.Eccellenzia.Vostra.seguendo.in.cio.lorme.de.gli

poi 6
oic 22
ich 7
che 86
hel 11
ela 30
lae 6
eac 6
ecc 13
cce 12
cel 13
ell 90
lle 38
len 12
enz 16
nzi 12
zia 11
iav 8
avo 16
vos 6
ost 19
str 19
tra 21
ras 10
ase 10
seg 5
egu 1
gue 2
uen 1
end 13
ndo 28
doi 3
oin 15
inc 10
nci 6
cio 8
iol 3
olo 11
lor 27
orm 1
rme 3
med 14
ede 44
deg 17
egl 17
gli 40


fachys.ykal.ar.ataiin.shol.shory.cthres.y.kor.sholdy

fac 1
ach 1
chy 231
hys 146
ysy 3
syk 9
yka 20
kal 11
ala 2
lar 2
ara 7
rat 1
ata 2
tai 34
aii 357
iin 376
ins 58
nsh 42
sho 187
hol 256
ols 52
lsh 40
sho 187
hor 238
ory 42
ryc 11
yct 38
cth 208
thr 1
hre 1
res 1
esy 1
syk 9
yko 25
kor 18
ors 42
rsh 60
sho 187
hol 256
old 130
ldy 36

Note the more definite spiking and flattening of the VMS. Also note
that values crossing VMS word boundaries have as much chance of
having high occurances as within words. This definately rules out a
simple substituion cipher one for one. A pair cipher might work but
I would think it doubtful. The major spiking would not be present.

It could be that either letter clusters stand for words, as in the
triplet idea, or parts of the VMS are in fact abbreviated as Nick
Pelling has suggested. I would need to produce a lot more data before
I could form an opinion.

Any comments?

Jeff

BTW In the triplet method a high occurance triplet is more likely to
be a vowel although this does not always follow as vowels may be
scattered among triplets with lower values.


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