Does anyone know when writting from left to right started?

Question

with cave paintings, it seems they already started their interpertations in drawing forms from left to right.
I don't even know why I want to know this, it just popped up to ask.
thanks

Answer 1

Evidently it changed around a lot. Below is ancientscripts.com on Sumerian, which I think is the earliest one. Egyptian evidently could go in either direction, some Asian scripts (Chinese?) go or once went top to bottom, and Hebrew and Arabic still go right to left. (As a left-hander who was always smudging what I'd just written with the side of my hand, I salute them!) Greek sometimes went what they call boustrophedon (as the ox plows), right to left one line, left to right the next so you didn't have to move your pen back.

"The Sumerian writing system during the early periods was constantly in flux. The original direction of writing was from top to bottom, but for reasons unknown, it changed to left-to-right very early on (perhaps around 3000 BCE). This also affected the orientation of the signs by rotating all of them 90° counterclockwise. Another change in this early system involved the "style" of the signs. The early signs were more "linear" in that the strokes making up the signs were lines and curves. But starting after 3000 BCE these strokes started to evolve into wedges, thus changing the visual style of the signs from linear to "cuneiform"."

Answer 2

patience and prepare, it really is truly what it really is about. i began coaching a short at the same time as after I discovered to write down in any respect (precise hand), merely cuz I loved writing a lot that i could not stand the considered not with the flexibility to apply my precise hand hence not with the flexibility to write down. although not some thing devastating ever got here about, i'm happy I kept on coaching considering now my fingers have a tendency to damage each and every time i take advantage of them (both) too a lot so i can adjust to the different one! I advise you commence slowly: do not hurry the left hand writing, make the effort. the hand has to study how each and every letter is written and appropriate to the subsequent one to create a note and sentences. your hand has to get used to the paper less than it. difficulty with left hand writing is that your hand has a tendency to conceal the words you've merely written. you could stumble on your own answer for it. although warding off writing with ink is an amazing commence. solid success with this smart undertaking!

Answer 3

Since most people are right-handed, writing from left to right avoids dragging your arm/sleeve through the wet ink/paint and allows the writer to see what they're writing.

Answer 4

since man/woman picks up the first stick and scratched the first line on the sand or dirt as most of us are right handed, it is the logical direction, so as not to smudge what you've just written, if you are a rightie, try writting right to left and see what i mean

Answer 5

you know that really is an interesting question..im gonna start writing right to left