Further deviations occur if the quantity of ones is 5 or 7. In the table below a tilde indicates the digit corresponding to the quantity of ones. The use of iteration in the notation may be able to teach us a lesson. Back to Words Which brings us back to the writing system. Several dozen different characters appear in them, far too many for the writing system to be an alphabet, and there are too many long words for it to be a syllabary.
Some characters occur very many times, others only once or twice.
It is as if the headers of most pages in an English book were such words as bookkeeper , googol , grammar , Ouagadougou and Wassamassaw . On many occasions the titles of a section and its first subsection are cognate, though not derived from a common base in uniform ways. And to make it worse, otherwise distinct characters which share certain components or are mirror reflexions of one another seem to form similar patterns. But I'll say no more now. Created and maintained by Ivan A Derzhanski .