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.
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