Quote:Hubert Dale: Forgive me, but don’t Old Turkic scripts normally run right-to-left?
The old Turkic language and the script are two different things.
The language can be written with a number of character sets, with Arabic (right to left) being the predominant one, but it has also historically been written to a lesser extent with Latin letters, which are read left to right.
Even today, in some parts of south-central Asia, there are languages that are written with as many as three (possibly even four) different character sets (usually Latin, Arabic, and Cyrillic). Often ecclesiastics would use a different character set from those writing legal and diplomatic documents and would sometimes retain this method when those around them had migrated to a different character set.
In Africa, some of the languages are written with local alphabets, and with the Arabic alphabet.