6 ms·

What are some of the identifying characteristics?

• mkl 7y ago
  Chinese has particular stroke orders that often carry over into English (e.g. cross the t before drawing the vertical) which leads to all kinds of differences when writing quickly, as the lines from the pen not leaving the paper are in different places. There are often also quite distinctive curving diagonal lines. Arabic, being written right to left, requires quite a different hand position, which leads to very vertical strokes (not slanted to the right). Some other distinctive features I've noticed are that beautiful cursive is likely to be someone Indian, and very small, fine, and vertical, likely Indonesian. I'm sure handwriting experts can tell a lot more than me.