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  2. Right-to-left script - Wikipedia

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    A woman writing in Persian in right-to-left direction, with a notebook computer displaying right-to-left text. Right-to-left, top-to-bottom text is supported in common computer software. [1] Often, this support must be explicitly enabled. Right-to-left text can be mixed with left-to-right text in bi-directional text.

  3. Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts - Wikipedia

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    For example, titles on the spines of books are usually written vertically. When a foreign language film is subtitled into Korean, the subtitles are sometimes written vertically at the right side of the screen. In the standard language (표준어; 標準語) of South Korea, punctuation marks are used differently in horizontal and vertical ...

  4. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

  5. Bidirectional text - Wikipedia

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    Some so-called right-to-left scripts such as the Persian script and Arabic are mostly, but not exclusively, right-to-left—mathematical expressions, numeric dates and numbers bearing units are embedded from left to right. That also happens if text from a left-to-right language such as English is embedded in them; or vice versa, if Arabic is ...

  6. Writing system - Wikipedia

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    How individual lines are read—whether starting from the left or right on a horizontal axis, or from the top or bottom on a vertical axis. For example, English and many other Western languages are written in horizontal rows that begin at the top of a page and end at the bottom, with each row read from left to right.

  7. Why Do Languages Have Gendered Words?

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    And in a language of grammatical gender, if there's lots of other objects around, saying it with the right gendered article or the right gendered pronoun will immediately disambiguate, make it a ...

  8. Why love languages could be holding you back (and what to ...

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    Despite being more than 30 years old, the love languages theory has gained a remarkable amount of traction in the last three to four years, spurred on by social media and the TikTokification of ...

  9. Boustrophedon - Wikipedia

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    When reading one line, the lines above and below it appear upside down. However, the writing continues onto the second side of the tablet at the point where it finishes off the first, so if the first side has an odd number of lines, the second will start at the upper left-hand corner, and the direction of writing shifts to top to bottom. Larger ...