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

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    Today, the left-to-right direction is dominant in all three languages for horizontal writing: this is due partly to the influence of English and other Western languages to make it easier to read when the two languages are found together—for example, on airport signs at a train station—and partly to the increased use of computerized ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Boustrophedon - Wikipedia

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    A notcher would hold the wooden stick in their left hand, cutting the letters with their right hand from right to left. When the first side was complete, they would flip the stick over vertically and start to notch the opposite side in the same manner. When unfolded horizontally (as in the case of the stone-cut boustrophedon inscriptions), the ...

  6. Neuroanatomy of handedness - Wikipedia

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    Because the left arm is controlled by the right hemisphere and vice versa, the corpus callosum has also been found to be larger in left-handers. This is theoretically so that language comprehension and production can more efficiently move from the primary language areas into the motor areas which control the contralateral arm.

  7. Fingerspelling - Wikipedia

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    Either the left or right hand can be dominant. In a modified tactile form used by deafblind people the signer's hand acts as the dominant hand and the receiver's hand becomes the subordinate hand. Some signs, such as the sign commonly used for the letter C, may be one-handed.

  8. Proper right and proper left - Wikipedia

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    Statue holding a sword in its proper right hand. Proper right and proper left are conceptual terms used to unambiguously convey relative direction when describing an image or other object. The "proper right" hand of a figure is the hand that would be regarded by that figure as its right hand. [1]

  9. American Sign Language phonology - Wikipedia

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    The top most hand is the ASL sign for the letter /b/ with the different realizations of the same phoneme below it. The bottom left hand shows the fingers bent at the bottom joints and the bottom right hand shows the thumb being along the side of the hand. Each phoneme may have multiple allophones, i.e. different realizations of the same phoneme ...