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What languages are read from right to left? |
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Both Arabic and Hebrew, and the non-Semitic languages using the Arabic or the Hebrew alphabet, such as Persian and Yiddish, are written from right to left (except for their numbers!). Ancient Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and the oldest Latin could be written in both directions.
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