Abstract
Learning to write by hand begins with copybook models, which gradually evolve into individual features as writers acquire their own traits over time. In this paper, two separate scripts were used, and commonalities between the two scripts were found based on the way the two scripts formed letters that looked similar to one another. Nine distinct lookalike letters were noted and investigated. 200 handwriting samples from 100 people were gathered (50 each from familiar and non-familiar writers). These observations have been compared using a graph. The t-test, a statistical tool, was used to examine the significance of the overall hypothesis. 4.5547 was the t-test value at 5% significance, which is significant at df 16.
Keywords: Inter-script; Comparison; Lookalike alphabets; Stylistics
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