For folks who are interested. This is actually an already well studied topic! It is called "language complexity". The consensus is that in aggregate (all language artifacts like writing, conjugation, syntax) no language is more complex than any other since complexity on one dimension (say chinese writing for Mandarin) is compensated in another (Mandarin morphology or conjugation).
This is called the compensation hypothesis at least in phonology (how we speak a language)
Pixels per character is certainly an interesting dimension of complexity and I would encourage the author to try to get this ready for publication at SIGMORPHON or something like that!
This is called the compensation hypothesis at least in phonology (how we speak a language)
Pixels per character is certainly an interesting dimension of complexity and I would encourage the author to try to get this ready for publication at SIGMORPHON or something like that!
See https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com//mobile/view/1... for more on complexity