hasWritingDirection

P2264 predicate

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

Observed surface forms (15)

  • writingDirection ×193
  • directionOfWriting ×12
  • writingDirectionOfName ×3
  • hasDirectionality ×2
  • historicalWritingDirection ×2
  • writingMode ×2
  • directionalityInUnicode ×1
  • earlierWritingDirection ×1
  • primaryWritingDirection ×1
  • readingDirection ×1

Sample triples (236)

Subject Object
Ogham script left-to-right in manuscript transcriptions via predicate surface "writingDirection"
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"
Old Persian left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Old Turkic (runiform and Uyghur-script traditions) right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Omid right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Oscan alphabet boustrophedon via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Oscan alphabet right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Pakhto right-to-left via predicate surface "writingSystemDirection"
Palaic left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Paleo-Latin alphabet boustrophedon (in some inscriptions) via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Paleo-Latin alphabet left-to-right (in later forms) via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Paleo-Latin alphabet right-to-left (in earliest forms) via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Pallava script left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Papiamento left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Pe right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Pegon script right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Persian language right-to-left
Perso-Arabic script right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Pharaonic Egypt left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Pharaonic Egypt right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Pharaonic Egypt top-to-bottom via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Phoenician alphabet right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Phoenician language right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Polish language left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Polish złoty left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Proto-Canaanite script right-to-left 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"
Quechua left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Rashi script right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Rencong script left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Resh right-to-left via predicate surface "directionOfWriting"
rongorongo
surface form: Rongorongo
reverse boustrophedon via predicate surface "directionOfWriting"
Runic alphabet left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Ruqʿah script right-to-left via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Russian language left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Róbert left-to-right
Saho left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Sanskrit left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Serbian Cyrillic alphabet left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Serbian Latin alphabet left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Serbian language left-to-right
Sharada script left-to-right via predicate surface "directionOfWriting"
Sindhi left-to-right in Devanagari script
Sindhi right-to-left in Arabic script
Sinhala left-to-right
Sinhala script horizontal via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Slovak language left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"
Slovene left-to-right via predicate surface "writingDirection"