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At least we're not mixing in letters (sub.wetshaving.social)
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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know which one HK65 is referring to, but I know a few examples:

  • Punjabi, which is left-to-right in India and right-to-left in Pakistan (the Indian one being influenced by older Indian scripts and the Pakistani one by Arabic)
  • Kazakh uses the RtL Arabic script in the part of China where there are a lot of Kazakhs and the LtR Cyrillic script in Kazakhstan
  • At least some of the kinds of Tamazight (spoken by Amazigh people, mostly in Morocco and Algeria) use Arabic script, but there is a script specifically for Tamazight languages called Tifinagh which goes left to right and there's also some use of the Latin alphabet for these languages
[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now that I think about it: Yiddish is traditionally written in Hebrew script but also in Latin. I don't know if the Latin is "just" a transliteration but I think both are standardized (which wouldn't mean it's not a transliteration)

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago

I couldn't say much about it myself, but with it being a Germanic language influenced by Hebrew that would make sense