Draft:Left-to-right script

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Declined by S0091 3 months ago. Last edited by Diannaa 3 months ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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Comment: Omniglot is not a reliable source. The other sources either make not mention of Left-to-right script or are trivial coverage. S0091 (talk) 20:13, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

In a left-to-right, top-to-bottom script (commonly shortened as right to left or abbreviated as LTR,) writing starts on the left to a page and continues to the right, proceeding from top to bottom. The Latin, Devanagari, Cyrillic, Greek, Ge'ez and Georgian scripts are all examples of LTR scripts.

These scripts can be contrasted with many common modern right-to-left writing systems, where writing starts from the right of the page and continues to the left.

Even though Arabic is written right-to-left, its numbers are written in left-to-right.

Uses

Most of the world's most widely used scripts are written LTR

Cyrillic alphabet is used to write most Slavic languages, it is also used to write many other languages such as Abkhaz, Uzbek, and Chechen.^[2]

Most LTR scripts that were derived from the Proto-Sinaitic script were derived from RTL scripts^[3]and from boustrophedon scripts.

Several languages both RTL and LTR writing systems. For example,

Kurdish

may be written in the Arabic or Latin script.

Ancient examples of text using alphabets such as Phoenician, Greek, or Old Italic may exist variously in left-to-right, right-to-left, or boustrophedon order; therefore, it is not always possible to classify some ancient writing systems as purely RTL or LTR.

List of LTR scripts in alphabetical order

Ahom

References

^ "The World's Most Popular Writing Scripts". WorldAtlas. 2019-10-23. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
^ "Slavic Cataloging Manual – Non-Slavic Languages in Cyrillic script". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
^ "Phoenician alphabet and language". www.omniglot.com. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
^ "Omniglot index by writing direction". www.omniglot.com. Retrieved 2024-01-29.

[1] "The World's Most Popular Writing Scripts". WorldAtlas. 2019-10-23. Retrieved 2024-01-28.

[2] "Slavic Cataloging Manual – Non-Slavic Languages in Cyrillic script". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2024-01-28.

[3] "Phoenician alphabet and language". www.omniglot.com. Retrieved 2024-01-28.

[4] "Omniglot index by writing direction". www.omniglot.com. Retrieved 2024-01-29.

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Uses

List of LTR scripts in alphabetical order

See also

References