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Distribution Of Complexities In The Vai Script, Andrij Rovenchak, Ján Mačutek
Distribution Of Complexities In The Vai Script, Andrij Rovenchak, Ján Mačutek
Charles L. Riley
In the paper, we analyze the distribution of complexities in the Vai script, an indigenous syllabic writing system from Liberia. It is found that the uniformity hypothesis for complexities fails for this script. The models using Poisson distribution for the number of components and hyper-Poisson distribution for connections provide good fits in the case of the Vai script.