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The predominant direction is called the global orientation.
Languages involving bidirectional text are used mainly in the Middle East. They
include Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, Hebrew, and Yiddish.
include Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Hebrew, and Yiddish.
In such a language, the general flow of text proceeds horizontally from right to
left, but numbers are written from left to right, the same way as they are
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## Countries with Languages that Require Bidirectional Scripting
There are over 300 million people who depend on bidirectional scripts, including
Farsi and Urdu which share the same script as Arabic, but have additional
characters.
There are over 600 million people whose languages are written right-to-left, including
Persian and Urdu which use the Arabic script with additional characters.
| Language | Number of Countries |
| Language | Countries (examples) |
|----------|------------------------------------------------------|
| Arabic | 18 |
| Farsi | 1 (Iran) |
| Urdu | 2 (India, Pakistan) |
| Hebrew | 1 (Israel) |
| Yiddish | Israel, North America, South America, Russia, Europe |
| Arabic | Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, ... Middle East & North Africa |
| Persian | Iran, Afghanistan |
| Urdu | India, Pakistan |
| Hebrew | Israel |
| Yiddish | Israel, North America, South America, Russia, Europe |
This list of languages is far from complete. Other languages with RTL scripts include
Divehi (Maldives), Kurdish (Iraq), Kashmiri (India), Sindhi (Pakistan and India), Uighur (China), and Pashto (Afghanistan), etc.
## Logical Order versus Visual Order