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H8crilA
on Feb 27, 2023
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Help! Is This Arabic?
Japanese is actually top to bottom, but they largely gave up on that idea. Probably too much hassle.
irrational
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But, there are still texts that are read top to bottom. I only know that because my daughter has a Japanese friend and she has shown me some of her books and how they are read top to bottom.
tmtvl
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Same with Mongolian, but JP goes TBRL (Top to Bottom, Right to Left), Mongolian goes TBLR. Wikipedia has an overview:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_system#Directionality
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