Re: Ayeri: Menan Coyalayamoena ena McGuffey

Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> Carsten Becker skrev:
>
>> [1] This raises a question: The Proto-Semitics, were they
>> mostly left-handed, or why are semitic languages written
>> from right to left? It would be more natural for a
>> left-handed person. I guess left-to-right became the
>> standard direction in Europe because most people are right
>> handed and writing is easier for them that way.
>
> I've seen the right-to-left direction claimed to be
> an inheritance from pictographic writing.  When a
> right-handed person draws a person or an animal they
> tend to draw them looking leftwards, and that determined
> the direction of writing.
That seems sensible... but doesnt Egyptian read _towards_ the
faces? [That is, left-to-right, for left-facing pictograms...]


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