Re: bidi scripts and languages

Tex Texin scripsit:

> Is Thaana both a script and a language?

Thaana is the script, Dhivehi is the language, the Maldives is the country.

> Are some of the languages in fact scripts? (Jawi?)

That's Javanese written in the Arabic script.

> I saw Azerbaijani listed a RTL on one site. I thought it was written in latin
> and cyrillic. Is it every written in an RTL script?

The language is called Azeri. In Iran it is written in the Arabic script.

> As some languages are written in multiple scripts, I am considering
> identifying language-script pairs rather than just listing languages.
> Comments, as to whether that is better approach? (e.g. Yiddish-hebrew vs.
> Yiddish-latin)

Good idea. Note that historically Hebrew could be written in the Arabic
script, so it is possible that some languages can be written in multiple RTL
scripts.

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