An application of persistent homology and the graph theory to linguistics: The case of Tifinagh and Phoenician scripts

• Authors: Hajar Bouazzaoui , Mohamed Abdou Elomary , My Ismail Mamouni

Abstracts

EN

As the origin of the Tifinagh script remains uncertain, this work aims at exploring its probable relatedness with the Phoenician script. Using tools from within topological data analysis and graph theory, the similarity between the two scripts is studied. The clustering of their letter shapes is performed based on the pairwise distances between their topological signatures. The ideas presented in this work can be extended to study the similarity between any two writing systems and as such can serve as the first step for linguists to determine the possibly related scripts before conducting further analysis.

Keywords

EN

topological data analysis; persistent homology; graph theory; writing systems; Abjad scripts; Alphabet scripts; Tifinagh script; Phoenician script

• Publisher: Główny Urząd Statystyczny
• Journal: Statistics in Transition new series
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 141-156

Contributors

author

Hajar Bouazzaoui

• Hassan I University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science FST de Settat, IMII Laboratory, Morocco

• https://orcid.org/0000000318609757

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Mohamed Abdou Elomary

• Hassan I University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science FST de Settat, IMII Laboratory, Morocco

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My Ismail Mamouni

• Department of Mathematics, Research Team of Mathematics, Didactic and its Applications, Rabat, Morocco

Identifiers

DOI

10.21307/stattrans-2021-031

Biblioteka Nauki

1827549