A highly irregular script is like having letters that don’t follow any rules, they look completely different from each other and change shape in wild ways.
Imagine you’re writing with crayons, but every time you write a letter, it looks brand new. Sometimes the same letter might be short and squat one day, and tall and stretched out the next. It’s like drawing animals instead of letters, some are big, some are small, and none look alike!
Like a Crazy Alphabet
In a regular script, most letters have similar shapes and follow patterns, kind of like how all your toys in a box might be the same size or color. But in a highly irregular script, each letter is unique, it’s like having a different toy for every letter, and none of them match.
That’s why reading a highly irregular script can feel like trying to solve a puzzle with all different pieces, you have to figure out what each piece looks like on its own!
Examples
- Trying to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for the first time.
- Learning a new language with a writing system that feels random and confusing.
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See also
- What is syllabary?
- What are glyphs?
- What are phonograms?
- Why Does India Have So Many Writing Systems?
- What are three different scripts?