• Skua@kbin.earth
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        4 days ago

        And there are a rare few instances of writing systems that alternate left-to-right and right-to-left on each line

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          I know a language which kinda-sorta has two writing systems, one of which is left-to-right, the other one right-to-left.

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              I don’t know which one HK65 is referring to, but I know a few examples:

              • Punjabi, which is left-to-right in India and right-to-left in Pakistan (the Indian one being influenced by older Indian scripts and the Pakistani one by Arabic)
              • Kazakh uses the RtL Arabic script in the part of China where there are a lot of Kazakhs and the LtR Cyrillic script in Kazakhstan
              • At least some of the kinds of Tamazight (spoken by Amazigh people, mostly in Morocco and Algeria) use Arabic script, but there is a script specifically for Tamazight languages called Tifinagh which goes left to right and there’s also some use of the Latin alphabet for these languages