The Voynich Manuscript Deciphered: A Phonetic Transcription of Spoken Elu-Sinhala
Description
The Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408, carbon-dated 1404-1438 CE) is identified as a 15th-century Elu-Sinhala pharmaceutical text — a teaching manual recording a physician's spoken instructions for Ayurvedic preparations. The writing system is a bespoke abugida mapping 27 EVA characters to 14 Sinhala phonemes.
v5 adds: keyword-section clustering (Z=31.81, Montemurro & Zanette replication), directionality analysis (Parisel 2025 confirmation), entropy h2 analysis, Greenberg Universal 4 SOV grounding. All validation scripts included and reproducible.
Key results: 90.7% of 35,916 tokens glossable, 99.3% dictionary match, keyword-section clustering Z=31.81, directionality flip RTL→LTR, SOV syntax Z=7.04/4.19, pharmaceutical collocations 16/36 confirmed, external pharma Z=3.5.