Language and Scripts

[ninja_hattori]

Re: Language and Scripts

@calypsodc

People have told me that Urdu and Arabic are read right to left. As a person who grew up reading from left to right (Indian langs except Urdu I suppose and English), it boggles my mind as to how this is easily possible. My knowledge in this is nil, so please enlighten me. Does the sentence start at the bottom right side of a page or paragraph? So if you are writing in a note book, how does this work? What do you use for ending a sentence? Is there a period as in English or some mark as in Devnagari- like (|) ? When you are writing local languages like Sindhi in Arabic/Persian script, how do you compensate for pronunciation? A muslim once told me that all muslims can read the scripts(Persian/Arabic etc) even if they don’t understand the language. Was he wrong? I can’t even fathom adopting Latin script for Hindi or even Devanagari for some S. Indian languages coz quite a few of the pronunciations are a pain to produce if not impossible.

just little more mind boggling thing for you…

Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia