The classification of handwriting features of the Kazakh language written in Latin script

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Table 1. The relative frequencies of occurrence of the characters of the Kazakh language written in Latin script from analysed texts.

Character	Frequency occurrence in texts (%)
a	100.0
y	90.0
e	86.6
n	73.3

Figure 1. The number of variants identified within each micro feature group for all four studied letters from obtained Kazakh language handwriting samples.

Table 2. The number and percentage of micro features of the letters “a”, “y”, “e” and “n” identified within studied Kazakh language ­handwriting samples grouped by discriminating power index (L value).

a (N = 72)		y (N = 81)		e (N = 36)		n (N = 41)
L value	n (%)^a	L value	n (%)^a	L value	n (%)^a	L value	n (%)^a
2.00	7 (9.7)	2.00	8 (9.9)	2.00	1 (2.8)	2.00	1 (2.4)
1.70	12 (16.7)	1.70	1 (1.2)	1.70	3 (8.3)	1.40	2 (4.9)
1.52	3 (4.2)	1.52	7 (8.6)	1.52	2 (5.6)	1.22	3 (7.3)
1.40	3 (4.2)	1.50	3 (3.7)	1.40	3 (8.3)	1.15	2 (4.9)
1.30	5 (6.9)	1.30	8 (9.9)	1.30	1 (2.8)	1.10	1 (2.4)
1.22	2 (2.8)	1.22	2 (2.5)	1.05	1 (2.8)	1.05	1 (2.4)
1.15	4 (5.6)	1.15	2 (2.5)	0.92	1 (2.8)	0.92	1 (2.4)
1.10	3 (4.2)	1.10	4.9)	0.89	1 (2.8)	0.89	1 (2.4)
1.05	1 (1.4)	1.05	2 (2.5)	0.85	1 (2.8)	0.85	1 (2.4)
1.00	1 (1.4)	1.00	2 (2.5)	0.82	1 (2.8)	0.82	1 (2.4)
0.96	3 (4.2)	0.96	3 (3.7)	0.77	1 (2.8)	0.74	1 (2.4)
0.89	2 (2.8)	0.92	1 (1.2)	0.70	1 (2.8)	0.72	1 (2.4)
0.82	1 (1.4)	0.89	1 (1.2	0.62	1 (2.8)	0.68	1 (2.4)
0.80	1 (1.4)	0.85	2 (2.5)	0.57	2 (5.6)	0.66	2 (4.9)
0.77	2 (2.8)	0.82	1 (1.2)	0.51	1 (2.8)	0.64	1 (2.4)
0.70	1 (1.4)	0.80	4.9)	0.44	1 (2.8)	0.55	1 (2.4)
0.55	3 (4.2)	0.77	2 (2.5)	0.43	1 (2.8)	0.42–0.49	4 (9.8)
0.52	1 (1.4)	0.74	2 (2.5)	0.30–0.37	4 (11.1)	0.31–0.39	5 (12.2)
0.42–0.49	7 (9.7)	0.70	1 (1.2)	0.05–0.22	9 (25.0)	0.01–0.29	11 (26.8)
0.30–0.38	5 (6.9)	0.68	1 (1.2)	–	–	–	–
0.08–0.28	5 (6.9)	0.41–0.49	6 (7.4)	–	–	–	–
–	–	0.33–0.38	4 (4.9)	–	–	–	–
–	–	0.03–0.24	14 (17.3)	–	–	–	–

aPercentages might not total 100% due to rounding.

Figure 2. The number of variants identified within each micro feature group for all four studied letters in Cyrillic script.