# Sproat 2021: The Taxonomy of Writing Systems: How to Measure How Logographic a System Is

> Richard Sproat, Alexander Gutkin, 2021. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The linguistic-datasets survey lists it as the basis for a proposed…

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# The Taxonomy of Writing Systems: How to Measure How Logographic a System Is

Richard Sproat, Alexander Gutkin, 2021. _Computational Linguistics_.

Proposes a way to measure how logographic a writing system is, treating logography as a matter of degree rather than a fixed category, in line with earlier two-dimensional taxonomies by Sproat and Rogers.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1162/coli_a_00409](https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00409)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The linguistic-datasets survey lists it as the basis for a proposed test of writing-system type (alphabet, abjad, abugida, syllabary or logographic) from statistics alone.

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Sproat, R., & Gutkin, A. (2021). The Taxonomy of Writing Systems: How to Measure How Logographic a System Is. Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00409
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