
Some of the smaller languages are not mentioned, and the figures don't take into account users of liturgical languages. The Potential Users column lists the number of overall speakers of that language (native and second language users).

The Script Usage column shows all scripts that can be used for that language: the relative order gives a rough idea of frequency of use, and where the script usage is minor it appears in parentheses. This data is gathered from information in the SIL Ethnologue. The following table gives a rough idea of modern spoken languages that can be written using RTL scripts, and where they are spoken. When written in the Arabic script, it is written right-to-left. When written in Latin or Cyrillic scripts, Azeri is written left-to-right (LTR). For example, Azeri can be written in any of the Latin, Cyrillic, or Arabic scripts. Languages can be written in more than one script. Scripts have a writing direction, and so languages written in a particular script, will be written with the direction of that script. Which languages are written right-to-left (RTL)? Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript). This sense of the word "script" has nothing to do with programming scripts such as Perl or Syllabaries and the kanji ideographs imported from China). Some written languages require multiple scripts (for example, Japanese, which requires at least three scripts: the hiragana and katakana One script can be used for several different languages (for example, Latin script, which covers all of WesternĮurope). Microsoft offers the following definition on their globalization web site: Script: A collection of characters for displaying written text, all of which have a common characteristic that justifies The Unicode Consortium's glossary uses the following definition: Script: a collection of symbols used to represent text in one or more writing systems. Involved to create web pages in a new language. Therefore, knowing the writing direction can be relevant to estimating the work Knowing the directionality of text, based on the script(s) to be used, is important to web designers and authors, because right-to-left text can be more complicated (for beginners) to work with and the organization and directionality of the page layout are affected. What languages are written with right-to-left scripts?
