International Journal of Medical Toxicology & Legal Medicine
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue: 3and4

A study on the class characteristics of Gujarati, and Malayalam linguistics groups in english handwriting

  • Author:
  • Daxa J Shah1,, M S Dahiya2,
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 38 to 43

1M.Sc, B.Ed, PG.DDE, Assistant Examiner of Questioned Document, Directorate of Forensic science, Sectore 18/A,B/H Police Bhavan, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

2M.Sc Ph.D Director, Gujarat Forensic Sciences University, Institute of Forensic science, Sector 18/A, B/H Police Bhavan, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

*Corresponding Author Email: dax.a1995@gmail.com, +91 9426507117

**msdahiya49@rediffmail.com, +91 9978405120

Online published on 29 April, 2015.

Abstract

Investigation was carried out to identify the class characteristics of handwriting of the people from Guajarat and Kerala. The specimen samples of English handwriting were taken from the those who have studied their schooling in local language. The English handwriting samples of around thousand subjects were collected and their class characteristics. Such as writing movement, formation of letter, letter designs, pen-lifts, letter size, artistic ability, letter spacing and embellishments has been systematically examined to study the impact of the regional language's script over english. In total, eleven features were identified that occurred in english of handwriting samples and therefore considered class characteristics. The results revealed that class characteristics frequently stem from the given writing system due to their local scripts. which plays a vital role in identification of the writer's geographical region of origin.

Keywords

Handwriting, Class characteristics, Guajarati handwriting, Malayalam handwriting, Class Characteristic