Draft:Left-to-right script
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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[edit]
Most of the world's most widely used scripts are written LTR[1]. As usage of the Latin script spread, the repertoire of 23 letters used to write the Latin alphabet was expanded to accommodate the sounds of different languages such as English, German, Spanish, Italian, and also many non-Indo-European languages such as Tagalog, Indonesian, Turkish, Kazakh, etc. While the 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, Sindhi is commonly written in Arabic and Devanagari scripts, and a number of others have been used. 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[edit]
- Armenian
- Balinese
- Bassa
- Beitha Kukju
- Bengali
- Blackfoot
- Brahmi
- Burmese
- Cherokee
- Chinese
- Coptic
- Cyrillic
- Devanagari
- Ge'ez
- Fraser
- Georgian (Asomtavruli)
- Georgian (Nuskhuri)
- Georgian (Mkhedruli)
- Glagolitic
- Gothic
- Grantha
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Gurmukhi
- Kannada
- Kayah Li
- Khmer
- Korean
- Kpelle
- Kulitan
- Jurchen
- Lanna
- Lao
- Latin
- Lepcha
- Limbu
- Linear A
- Linear B
- Loma
- Lontara/Makasar
- , Malachim
- Malayalam
- Mayan
- Modi
- Mongolian
- Naxi
- Ndjuká
- Ogham
- Ojibwe
- Old Permic
- Odia
- Ranjana
- Redjang
- Runic
- Santali
- Sharda
- Siddham
- , Sinhala
- Sorang Sompeng
- Saurashtra
- Soyombo
- Syloti Nagri
- Tagbanwa
- Tai Dam
- Tai Lue
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Theban
- Tibetan
- Tifinagh
- Tikamuli
- Todhri
- Tocharian
- Ugaritic[4]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "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.