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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
Wikimedia FoundationHistory, Alphabets related to Phoenician, Ancient Near Eastern alphabets
Quote, History, Alphabets related to Phoenician, Ancient Near Eastern alphabets
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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