This has to do with writing direction. If you were a speaker of Hebrew or Arabic, you might do it going in the opposite direction,
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How native speakers pronounce “arabic”
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This has to do with writing direction. If you were a speaker of Hebrew or Arabic, you might do it going in the opposite direction,
How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED
Example sentences
They took my name tag, but I wanted to ask you, did anyone here write their name on the tag in Arabic? Anyone! No one? All right, no problem.
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There's the story of Samuel ha-Nagid, a Jewish poet whose skills as an Arabic scribe enabled him to rise to become the prime minister of the Muslim ruler of Granada,
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