Timeline for Languages which changed their writing direction
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| Nov 4, 2019 at 23:49 | history | edited | CJ Dennis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 4, 2019 at 23:38 | history | edited | CJ Dennis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 4, 2019 at 17:55 | comment | added | Jan | And "... so one of its ancestors was originally written from right to left". | |
| Nov 4, 2019 at 15:16 | comment | added | Prof. Falken | @CJDennis, thanks! Now I understand, of course. :) Still, it wouldn't hurt to write that explicitly in case the reader is like me. *Mongolian script is also descended from Aramaic" ... | |
| Nov 4, 2019 at 12:09 | comment | added | CJ Dennis | @Prof.Falken The Mongolian language is different from Mongolian script. Just as English now uses Latin letters, not its native runes. | |
| Nov 4, 2019 at 11:19 | comment | added | Prof. Falken | Mongolian is not from Aramaic? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolic_languages | |
| Nov 3, 2019 at 23:17 | comment | added | Jan | The title of the question is "Languages which changed their writing direction" and not "Scripts that changed their writing direction". But your point that "Mongolian [...] was originally written right-to-left" remains incorrect even when inferring that the "Mongolian" mentioned is not the Mongolian language but the Mongolian script created in the 13th century. This Mongolian script was written vertically from the start and did not change directions. | |
| Nov 3, 2019 at 21:48 | comment | added | CJ Dennis | @Jan If you want to be really pedantic, languages don't have a written direction since most languages are spoken. One of the scripts used for Mongolian has indeed changed direction since being inherited from Aramaic. And Brahmi was never a spoken language but a script used for several languages (like the Latin script) including Sanskrit, Prakrit, Tamil, Saka, and Tocharian. The OP's question seems more focused on the direction changes than the exact language(s) used, since "Greek" covers thousands of years of history. | |
| Nov 3, 2019 at 19:38 | comment | added | Jan | Your assertion re. Mongolian seems to refer to the wrong language. The Mongolians imported a vertically written script from the Uighurs (who spoke Uighur, a different language). Given the images in the wikipedia article about the Sogdian alphabet, it seems as if it was not even the Uighurs who changed the writing directions, but the Sogdians (speaking yet another language) before them. | |
| Nov 2, 2019 at 13:27 | history | answered | CJ Dennis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |