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

Description generation (PDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the predicate name and this instruction.

Instruction
Given a predicate that represents a relationship or action between entities, generate a one-sentence description explaining its meaning.  
# Instructions
Focus on describing the relationship, not the entities themselves. 
# Response Format
Begin the description with \' Indicates...\'
Input
Predicate: hasWritingDirection
Generated description
Indicates the direction in which writing or text is read or written for a given script, language, or text system.

Sample triples (962)

Subject Object
Corsican language left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Nastaʿlīq right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Tifinagh left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Tifinagh right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Tifinagh top-to-bottom via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Slovene left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Lithuanian left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Croatian left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Bokmål left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Proto-Canaanite script right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Polish złoty left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Nabataean alphabet right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Bodo
surface form: Bodo language
left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Etruscan alphabet right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Etruscan alphabet boustrophedon via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Aramaic alphabet (historically)
surface form: Aramaic alphabet
right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Eastern Arabic numerals right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Ugaritic alphabet left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Tglg left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Eastern Nagari script left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Hira horizontal via predicate surface "writingMode"
Hira vertical via predicate surface "writingMode"
Palaic left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Milyan left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Arabic alphabet right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Hieroglyphic Luwian boustrophedon via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Hieroglyphic Luwian right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Hieroglyphic Luwian left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Phoenician language right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Greek language left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Lycian left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Devanagari Extended-A left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Mycenaean Greek left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Nabataean Arabic right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Asomtavruli left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Mkhedruli left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Sundanese script left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Pegon script right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Georgian language left-to-right
Khmer script left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Boko alphabet left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Thaana script right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Coptic language left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Crimean Tatar flag left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirectionOfName"
Crimean Tatar flag right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirectionOfName"
Ge'ez left-to-right via predicate surface "directionOfWriting"
Maghribi script right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Korean left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Korean top-to-bottom via predicate surface "historicalWritingDirection"
Pakhto right-to-left via predicate surface "writingSystemDirection"