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Pre-printMar 2026

The Voice But Not the Song: A Shorthand Hypothesis and the Statistical Fingerprint of the Voynich Manuscript

Matthew Ruckman

Computational analysis of the Voynich Manuscript identifying Italian syllabic tachygraphy as the encoding mechanism most consistent with its statistical fingerprint, with 56 permutation-validated signal words and partial decodings.

voynich-manuscripttachygraphycryptanalysiscomputational-linguistics