<figure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <graphic url="HOENEN_Armin_Principles_Aiding_in_Reading_Abbreviations_in_O-100002010000034A0000033B62AD3E37.png" /> <head>Figure 1: Letter position incidence in abbreviations. First row: for words of length 5 (24, 569 data points in Latin and 401 in Old Georgian). Second row: for words of length 4 to 11 (overlay). In the upper left graphic, for all abbreviated words of length 5 in Latin, the first letter was always present in the abbreviation, the second in roughly 30% of the cases, the third in slightly less cases, the fourth and fifth almost never. In Old Georgian, an alternation with 2 dominant patterns appears: one for shorter words with probably one suffix and one for words with 2 suffixes which then have more letters towards the relative middle.</head> </figure>