        “I know.”  Twilight waved a hoof dismissively.  “It probably won’t understand any of these either.  It may, however, help us understand what type of writing system it uses, though.  The first thing to do is give it the book, and see if it pays more attention to any one page than another.  They all have a drawing of the race that uses the language, so it shouldn’t be hard to figure out which page it’s on, even though you can’t read the text.”  She pointed to a woodcut of a griffon.  “There are more kinds of writing systems than I first thought.  I talked to an orthographic expert, and she said that there are logographic, syllabic, alphabetic, abugidas, abjads, and featural sytems.  Some of the systems use parts of others, and apparently orthographers argue about classification all the time.”