hasWritingDirection

P2264
predicate

Indicates the direction in which writing or text is read or written for a given script, language, or text system.

All labels observed (36)

Label Occurrences
writingDirection 723
hasDirectionality 61
directionOfWriting 52

Sample triples (962)

Subject Object
Spanish left-to-right
Old Italic script right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Old Italic script right-to-left and boustrophedon in some inscriptions via predicate surface "writingDirectionVariants"
Vietnamese alphabet left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Arabic right-to-left via predicate surface "directionOfWriting"
Kanji horizontal left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Kanji vertical top-to-bottom via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Danish language left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Finnish language left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Turkish language left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Russian language left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Punjabi language left-to-right in Gurmukhi via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Punjabi language right-to-left in Shahmukhi via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Persian language right-to-left
Italian language left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Polish language left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Cyrillic script left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Quechua left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Sanskrit left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Hiragana horizontal left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Hiragana vertical top-to-bottom via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Hebrew right-to-left via predicate surface "directionOfWriting"
Perso-Arabic script right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Japanese left-to-right
Japanese top-to-bottom
Norwegian language left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Phoenician alphabet right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Hindi left-to-right
Telugu left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Catalan left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Baybayin left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Baybayin horizontal via predicate surface "hasDirectionality"
Modern Greek left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
right-to-left via predicate surface "directionOfWriting"
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
horizontal via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Devanagari script horizontal via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Tamil left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Venetic language right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Venetic language boustrophedon (in some inscriptions) via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Nuskhuri left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Khmer left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Ogham script bottom-to-top on stones via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Ogham script left-to-right in manuscript transcriptions via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Hausa left-to-right (Latin script) via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Hausa right-to-left (Ajami script) via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Kufic script right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Gulf Arabic right-to-left via predicate surface "directionOfWriting"
Papiamento left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Maithili left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Sinhala left-to-right