Right-to-left script

Hebrew and Thaana scripts are other RTL writing systems that are official in Israel and the Maldives respectively.

The Arabic script is mostly but not exclusively right-to-left; mathematical expressions, numeric dates and numbers bearing units are embedded from left to right.

The Arabic-influenced Thaana alphabet which appeared around 1600 CE is used to write the Maldivian (Dhivehi) language.

Many other ancient and historic scripts derived from Aramaic inherited its right-to-left direction.

Ancient examples of text using alphabets such as Phoenician, Greek, or Old Italic may exist variously in left-to-right, right-to-left, or boustrophedon order; therefore, it is not always possible to classify some ancient writing systems as purely RTL or LTR.

The Arabic script used for Arabic and other languages in Asia and Africa is written right-to-left, top-to-bottom
The Hebrew language is written right-to-left, top-to-bottom
Ancient Chinese was written top to bottom, right to left
A woman writing in Persian in right-to-left direction, with a notebook computer displaying right-to-left text
The Old Latin inscription on the Praeneste fibula . The writing runs from right to left, unlike later Latin writing. [ 6 ]