Directionality sorts writing systems by which way their text actually runs across a page. Wikipedia notes that "the script is written from right to left in a cursive style" for Arabic, the opposite direction from the Latin script most English readers know. This dimension groups scripts that share the same reading direction.
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1. Wikipedia: Alphabet
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In the Middle Bronze Age, an apparently alphabetic system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script appeared in Egyptian turquoise mines in the Sinai Peninsula c. 1840 BC, apparently left by Canaanite workers.
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