![]() Horizontal writing was first used during the Meiji Period (1868-1912) in Western language dictionaries of Japanese. Japanese can be written from right to left in vertical columns or left to right in horizontal lines. Since then writing from left to right in horizontal lines has become popular, and today the majority of texts are written horizontally. Until the 1980s Korean was usually written from right to left in vertical columns. Both Arabic and Hebrew, and the non-Semitic languages using the Arabic or the Hebrew alphabet, such as Farsi 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. Other major world languages were originally written in various directions but eventually settled on one direction. It’s well known to most people that some languages, like Chinese and Japanese, can be written right to left, and sometimes even top to bottom vertically, but the variety goes much deeper than that. One of the oddities of human language is the number of ways that words can be written down around the world.
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