Shorthand writing on old photo?

[Greensleeves]

This seems to be an informative website in respect of shorthand and other symbolic writing styles.

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/shorthand.htm

[youngtug]

This seems to be an informative website in respect of shorthand and other symbolic writing styles.

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/shorthand.htm

See page 2

[Greensleeves]

I see you have already posted a link to another page of that site, YT.  Not that either of our posts help, I suspect.

[youngtug]

I trawled through the site GS and found similar but not any that matched

[Greensleeves]

It is so frustrating because it definitely looks like shorthand.  Trouble is, there are several lesser-known types of shorthand apart from Pitman and Gregg.  Would be good if we could find a sample of one of those.

[youngtug]

I still think that it is 1 to 10 in some form

[Maggie.]

Fascinating thread. I hope you get an answer soon, Maureeng. I don't know much about shorthand but there looks to be too many curly bits and dots here to me. Girls are notorious for making up secret codes though, and it does have the look of an Asian or Indian language.

Maggie

[Greensleeves]

I wonder if it would make any more sense if looked at in a mirror.  Just a thought ....

[Maggie.]

Urdu has dots and squiggles, but the dots seem to be grouped together rather than randomly placed as on the photo.  And the date of the photo predates the arrival of Urdu in the UK.  Of course it could have been added later.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Urdu_alphabets.png