Most Asian languages like Japanese, Chinese and Korean can be written horizontally or vertically. The Mongolian language is often written vertically.
Originally Sumerian was written in columns from top to bottom, but this changed very early on, and the vast majority of Sumerian tablets were written horizontally from left to right, just like modern European languages.
Traditionally from top to bottom, in columns from right to left.
They write left to right if they write horizontally. When writing vertically they would write from right to left.
i am a lefty who has a signature like a right handed person. looking at the signature they show on his wiki profile, it looks to be as if the pen/pencil was dragged from a right hand when shaping the letters instead of pushed as if written with the left.
athentically you right from top to bottom and from right to left.
Yes, it is. Arabic is written from right to left for the same reason that English is written for left to right or Japanese from up to down. Those are different languages and they had there special styles.
Not to the Chinese! Traditional Chinese books (and therefore, Japanese) are written to be read top to bottom right to left. Books in the English and the Romance languages are read left to right and top to bottom.
Languages written vertically, from right to leftChinese (all dialects, more commonly written vertically in Taiwan)Chữ-nômJapanese (can be written either vertically or horizontally)Korean (since the 1980s, horizontal is more common)KulitanMeroïtic (Hieroglyphic script)NushuTangut (Hsihsia)Languages written vertically, from left to rightOld ElamiteManchuMongolianOirat Clear ScriptPhags-paSogdianSutton SignWritingUyghurLanguages written vertically, from left to right, bottom to topBatak (Indonesia)Hanunoo (the Philippines)Tagbanwa (the Philippines)
Excluding possible early glyph languages or Sanskrit, one of the earliest languages written from right to left was - and is - Hebrew.
The majority of languages that are written from right to left are those that are written with the Arabic alphabet, such as Arabic, Farsi, Iranian Azeri/Turkish, Pashto, and Urdu. Other languages written from right to left include: Hebrew, Neo-Aramaic, and Maldivian.
AnswerBoth 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!). Urdu which is also derived from Arabic and Persian language and ancient indo - aryan language binti is written from right to left. Ancient Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and the oldest Latin could be written in both directions. Also Chinese and Japanese can be written right to left (also written from top to bottom, vertically).Korean is NOT written from right to left
Originally Sumerian was written in columns from top to bottom, but this changed very early on, and the vast majority of Sumerian tablets were written horizontally from left to right, just like modern European languages.
Languages that use the Hebrew and Arabic alphabets are written from right to left.
Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sindhi etc.
Chinese and some other Asian languages have traditionally been written in colums but in modern use it is usually left to right the same way as English. When Chinese is in columns, the first column on the page starts in the upper RIGHT corner and goes down, and successive columns go from right to left.
Turn it over so that instead of the numbers going up from left to right (or bottom to top), they go up from right to left (or top to bottom).
In Western Cultures words are written top left to bottom right of the page. In some Asian Cultures characters are written bottom right to top left of the page.