Reading right to left

Are there any languages (besides Hebrew) which are read from right to left? ;j

Aramaic? Yiddish? :smiley:

Zev Steinhardt

Also Urdu and Farsi, I believe.

arabic

Japanese can be written from right to left, but only if you are writing vertically. Otherwise, you should write left to right.

And, of course, the earliest Greek was written in serpentine fashion: left-to-right on one line and right-to-left on the next line, then left-to-right, etc.
(I do not know whether the first line on the page began at the left or right. I suspect the left only because Greek broke with the Semitic habit of right-to-left.)

Depending on the context, Chinese (and other Chinese-using languages such as Japanese and Korean) may be written in either left-to-right, or the more traditional right-to-left format (which in addition arranges the sentences vertically as opposed to horizontally).