Zipf law plot (frequency as function of frequency rank) for various texts.

The languages, texts and the word frequency files are:

Voynichese, the language of the ''[[Voynich Manuscript]]''. Prose-like parts from Majority Vote version of the text, excluding 'labels'. Extracted from the Landini/Zandbergen Interlinear Transcription 1.6e6.

* 'Biology' section. Sample: ''<nowiki>kary okeey qokar shy kchedy qotar shedy dain shey ly ssheol qolchedy</nowiki>'' [...] ''<nowiki>daiin olkedy ykaiin sor otes dol kedy otol chedy</nowiki>''. File voyn/prs/bio.1/gud.wfr (original 6559 words, truncated/filtered to 6555 words, ''N'' = 1325 distinct).


* 'Herbal' section, language B, part 1 (pages f26r,f26v,f31r,f31v,f33r-f34v,f39r-f41v,f43r,f43v,f46r,f46v,f48r,f48v,f50r,f50v,f55r,f55v,f57r,f66v). Sample: ''<nowiki>psheoky odaiir qoy ofseod chypchey ypchedy ain chofo chcphdy dchey</nowiki>'' [...] ''<nowiki>daiin dal kal ykedaiin shedar okchdy oty</nowiki>''. File voyn/prs/heb.1/gud.wfr (original 2827 words, truncated/filtered to 2820 words, ''N'' = 1111 distinct).


* 'Stars' section, part 2 (pages f103r-f108v,f111r-f115v,f116r). Sample: ''<nowiki>pchedal shdy ytechy pchy otey ylshy qoteey qotal shedy yshdal dain dal</nowiki>'' [...] ''<nowiki>sodal chal chcthy chckhy qol ary</nowiki>''. File voyn/prs/str.2/gud.wfr (original 10110 words, truncated/filtered to 10097 words, ''N'' = 2779 distinct).

The word frequency files '*/*/*/gud.wfr' are available at the [https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/EXPORT/projects/voynich/Notes/tr-stats/dat/ UNICAMP website].  The original annotated full texts, before truncation/filtering, are in the companion files */*/org/main.src.  The truncated/filtered texts -- one word per line, without punctuation -- are in */*/*/gud.tlw.