: I wonder if I can get >116 simple linear shapes to use them as a Alphabet? I'm just asking if that's possible to have ~116 simply drawn signs that can be related -since it's already proved

@Yeniel278

Yes, I think it should be possible.
You should have a look at some shorthand systems.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand
While they are not entirely phonetically based, parts of them are (I'm only familiar with German shorthand, not with English shorthand, so I cannot really tell you how much that is true for the English one).

But from my knowledge about shorthand I could tell you that creating such a system should be possible.

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@Kaufman565

If you want to build 116 shapes using linear (the same spatial relationships) combination of the smaller building shapes you should use minimum 5 different elements.

5 different elements give you 5!= 120 combinations (shapes, letters etc).

4 possible shapes gives you 4!=25 combinations.

Because the letters are much more complicated then just 1 or 5 elements and there is no such thing as "linear" combinations inside the letters, the task you want to solve is a huge challenge cause human should learn to recognise these strange combinations.

The humanity solved this by thousands of years, I suppose that in Math community you will find more sophisticated answer.

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