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Directionality of the Voynich Script

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While the Voynich Manuscript was almost certainly written left-to-right (LTR), the question whether the underlying script or cipher reads LTR or right-to-left (RTL) has received little quantitative attention. We introduce a statistical method that leverages n-gram perplexity asymmetry to determine directional bias in character sequences.

Christophe Parisel• 2025

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TaskDatasetResultRank
Character-stream perplexity asymmetry analysisVoynich corpus
Delta (Δ)0.0653
3
Character-stream perplexity asymmetry analysisEnglish Corpus
Delta (Δ)0.0033
3
Character-stream perplexity asymmetry analysisFrench corpus
Delta (Δ)0.0068
3
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