{"id":3087,"date":"2022-06-17T12:45:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2022-06-17T12:45:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:45:04","slug":"updated-article-languages-using-right-to-left-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/2022\/06\/17\/updated-article-languages-using-right-to-left-scripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated article: Languages using right-to-left scripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article &#8220;Script direction and languages&#8221; now has the title &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/International\/questions\/qa-scripts\">What languages are written with right-to-left scripts?<\/a>&#8220;, and provides insights into right-to-left (RTL) script usage around the world.<\/p>\n<p>In a substantial revision, previous tables have been replaced with a completely new table which lists 12 scripts and over 200 languages using RTL scripts in the modern day. While it is only possible to give a rough idea of usage, the table includes information about which countries use those languages and figures for speakers of those languages. The data is gathered from the SIL Ethnologue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article &#8220;Script direction and languages&#8221; now has the title &#8220;What languages are written with right-to-left scripts?&#8220;, and provides insights into right-to-left (RTL) script usage around the world. In a substantial revision, previous tables have been replaced with a completely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/2022\/06\/17\/updated-article-languages-using-right-to-left-scripts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,205,206,20,11],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afrlreq","category-alreq","category-hlreq","category-translation","category-update","tag-qa-scripts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}