Re: what makes a con-script a Con-Script?

Rodlox R wrote:

> *curious*
>
> if you had five or fewer tablet (each the size of your palm), which had
> symbols etched in them...how would you know that it was a written
> language?...as opposed to random slashes in the rock...or something else?
>
> just wondering.
>
> __


Not an expert but:

a)Are any of the symbols repeated?  If so, how accurately.
b)How complicated are the symbols?   Are the majority made of more than
one stroke?
c)How many different symbols are there?  If more than about 400, it's
a)A logographic script, b)Random slashes.  If less than 10, it's
unlikely to be a script, though it could be a language with very few
phonemes.


a)+b), not c) - probably logographic script
All of them - probably a syllabic or alphabetic script
b)+c), not a) - probably not a script
a)+c), not b) - Quite hard to tell.