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Why are so many ancient languages written from right to left? Is it pretty random what direction a written language takes or is there something to guide it? Ancient Egyptian can be written in any direction. Is that true of other languages like Chinese as well?

Posted by Margarita Lacabe on February 28, 2009 6:54 PM |

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