Timeline for Languages which changed their writing direction
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| Nov 4, 2019 at 18:02 | comment | added | Jan | @Anton Sherwood: Not that I know of. What would be the point? If you want a practical writing system, you can just use Cyrillic or some similar romanization. If you want to keep up Mongol tradition, then you would probably want to have your writing system just as it was 750 years ago, i.e. with vertical writing direction | |
| Nov 3, 2019 at 15:41 | comment | added | slebetman | @Jan Interestingly, Malay also previously switched from several different natively developed writing systems to Arabic over the course of the 12th century (different writing systems because the writing systems were developed for specific Malay dialect/language) | |
| Nov 3, 2019 at 3:43 | comment | added | Anton Sherwood | I wonder whether there has ever been a movement to rotate Mongolian to match its ancestor (Syriac?). | |
| Nov 1, 2019 at 17:15 | comment | added | Jan | Malay also changed from Arabic to Latin over the course of the 20th century. | |
| Nov 1, 2019 at 17:08 | comment | added | Jan | And after 1990 there have been some attempts to revert to the pre-socialist writing systems in some countries (e.g. Mongolia) | |
| Oct 31, 2019 at 22:17 | history | answered | Sir Cornflakes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |