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Article: 'Gurmukhi' can aid forensic research, say British experts.
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- March 17, 2008
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'Gurmukhi' can aid forensic research, say British experts
By: Prasun Sonwalkar
London, Mar 17 (PTI) In a unique study, British forensic experts have used the Punjabi script 'Gurmukhi' to develop a technique through which the origin and age of writers could be tracked, a method that could prove effective in profiling the criminal authors of documents.
Researchers at the University of Derby used a Punjabi pangram (sentence containing all the letters of the alphabet) to zero in on the identity of writers.
A popular example of a pangram in English is The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, which uses all 26 letters of the alphabet.
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