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Handwriting Accents to Reveal Cultural Identity of Author: An Indian Approach

Vinny Sharma1, A K Jain2, Prashant Johri3 , Vinny Sharma1 , A K Jain2 , Prashant Johri

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Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 14(2 (Special Issue)):p 168-173, . | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijfmp.0974.3383.14221.22
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Vinny Sharma. Handwriting Accents to
Reveal Cultural Identity of Author: An
Indian Approach. Indian J Forensic Med
Pathol. 2021;14(3 Special):168-173
 

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Handwriting is a neuro-muscular phenomenon, which is affected by the author’s gender, age, ethnicity, the system of handwriting learned, content, purpose, writing protocol, whether written from memory, dictated, or copied out, writing instruments, changes in the handwriting of an individual over time, etc. It has been established by studies that handwriting is an acquired skill. Handwriting is also related to
the cognitive aspects of the brain with the muscular movements. Terefore, it can be
hypothesized that a certain degree of commonness exists in the handwriting features
of the people of the same population group. Few researches had been conducted in
this aspect to identify the ethnic origin of author through distinctive characteristics of
their handwriting, which reflects their ethnic origin. Out of these works, a couple of
studies took quantitative approach to statistically examine the characteristics of handwriting. Tis research will help in identifying the authors of anonymous writings. Also
the work will help the anthropological researchers in identifying the ethnic origin of
writer based on their ethno-linguistic handwriting features. We approach this problem using multilingual writers. We have focused on a very distinctive ethno-linguistic
groups such as Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali and Hindi writers, to double check the results. Further comparison is done with the fndings of the data obtained from control
population. Each set of group contains 50 samples.
 

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  • Vinny Sharma1, A K Jain2, Prashant Johri3
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  • Vinny Sharma1
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  • A K Jain2
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  • Prashant Johri
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