Which languages are read right to left?

Jun 27 2023

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Persian (Farsi) and Other Right-to-Left Languages

Other languages read right-to-left include Persian (Farsi), Urdu, and Yiddish. Persian, spoken primarily in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, uses an adapted form of the Arabic script called the Perso-Arabic script. However, unlike Arabic, Persian is written using an abugida system, which is an intermediate writing system between abjad and alphabet. This means that the primary characters represent consonants, with vowels represented by diacritic or otherwise separate glyphs.

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