Philippe Verdy wrote at 7:54 PM on Sunday, May 23, 2004: >What is unique in Phoenician is that it has a weak >directionality (can be written in either direction, although RTL is probably >more common and corresponds to the most important sources of usage in old >sacred >texts from which semitic script familiess for Aramaic or Early Hebrew have >genetic relations).
Phoenician is right-to-left. In fact, that is one of the arguments against a Phoenician source for Archaic Greek, which exhibits right-to- left, left-to-right, and boustrophedon. Respectfully, Dean A. Snyder Assistant Research Scholar Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project Computer Science Department Whiting School of Engineering 218C New Engineering Building 3400 North Charles Street Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218 office: 410 516-6850 cell: 717 817-4897 www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
