Re: Scripts

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>A few people have mentioned Devanagari so far, so i'd just like to
>mention that until i met someone who's literate in Bengali (another Indic
>script which i can't tell the difference between), i always assumed that
>Devanagari and the similar-looking scripts with lines along their upper
>edges go Right to Left.  But then i found out that they go Left to Right.
> Am i the only one who thinks that they look like they should be going
>the opposite direction?
I Never thought so, mostly because i hadn't learned that scripts could go
right to left, until i learned about Hebrew and Arabic (and by then i had
already learned how Devanagari goes). I can see why you might assume that.
I wonder, had you learned how to write in Hebrew already by the time you
saw Devanagari?

To me at least, the way you start and end Devanagari Letters leads itself
better to writing left to right, rather than right to left (they seem to
end with the vertical lines on the right hand sides).

Another interesting thing is, when writing words, often in fast writing
the top lines will be omitted. And when writing slower, letters are
written glyph first, hung from a top line, and then the horizontal line is
added.


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