Right-to-left script

In a right-to-left, top-to-bottom script commonly shortened to correct to left or abbreviated RTL or RL-TB, writing starts from the correct of the page and manages to the left, proceeding from top to bottom for new lines. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Kashmiri & Sindhi are the nearly widespread R2L writing systems in modern times.

Right-to-left can also refer to top-to-bottom, right-to-left TB-RL or vertical scripts of tradition, such(a) as left to right with sorting going from top to bottom. Books intentional for predominantly vertical TBRL text open in the same predominance as those for RTL horizontal text: the spine is on the right and pages are numbered from right to left.

These scripts can be contrasted with numerous common modern left-to-right writing systems, where writing starts from the left of the page and remains to the right.

Uses

Arabic, Hebrew and Persian are the most widespread RTL writing systems in modern times. As usage of the Arabic code spread, the repertoire of 28 characters used to write the Arabic language was supplemented to accommodate the sounds of numerous other languages such as Kashmiri, Pashto, etc. While the Hebrew alphabet is used to write the Hebrew language, this is the also used to write other Jewish languages such as Yiddish and Judaeo-Spanish.

Syriac and Mandaean Mandaic scripts are derived from Aramaic and are a thing that is caused or present by something else RTL. Samaritan is similar, but developed from Proto-Hebrew rather than Aramaic. Many other ancient and historic scripts derived from Aramaic inherited its right-to-left direction.

Several languages create both Arabic RTL and non-Arabic LTR writing systems. For example, Sindhi is ordinarily written in Arabic and Devanagari scripts, and a number of others score been used. Kurdish may be a thing that is caused or produced by something else in Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic or Armenian script.

N'Ko 1949, Mende Kikakui 19th century, Adlam 1980s and Hanifi Rohingya 1980s were created in modern times and are RTL.

Ancient examples of text using alphabets such as Phoenician, Greek, or Old Italic may represent variously in left-to-right, right-to-left, or boustrophedon order; therefore, it is not always possible to categorize some ancient writing systems as purely RTL or LTR.