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Re: Ayeri: Menan Coyalayamoena ena McGuffey

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Saturday, April 9, 2005, 20:50
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. ObConlang: the Kejeb syllabary which preceded the Sohlob alphabet is partly pictographic in style. I guess I should make an effort to relate the mapping of picturesque syllables so that their value matches the first syllable of the Kejeb word for the objects they look like. -- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! (Tacitus)

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