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From: bruck@actcom.co.il (Uri Bruck)
Subject: Re: Languages' Direction?
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 07:39:23 GMT
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Abdel-Basset Assimi (Abboud.Assimi@imag.fr) wrote:
: Hi everyone,

: I'm looking for the origins of differnces existing in written languages'
: direction. Why Arabic is written right to left, Engilish left to right
: and traditional Chinese up to down?
: Does anyone know something about that?

: many thanks :=)


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