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Re: language and spatio-temporal orientation
From: Marcel Tschudin
Date: 2010 Jul 26, 17:47 +0300
From: Marcel Tschudin
Date: 2010 Jul 26, 17:47 +0300
Something else which might eventually also be related with this sort of "orientation in languages": In western languages we write from left to right. This is true for text and for numbers. The Arabic language is written from right to left but not the numbers; they are written from left to right. I don't know whether this is also the case in Hebrew. Marcel
