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: Cuneiform
Wikimedia FoundationHistory, Sumerian pictographs sectionQuote, History, Sumerian pictographs section
The first unequivocal written documents start with the Uruk IV period, from c. 3300 BC, followed by tablets found in Uruk III, Jemdet Nasr, Early Dynastic I Ur and Susa (in Proto-Elamite) dating to the period until c. 2900 BC.
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