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English: Glyphs in the Rongorongo writing system are written in reverse boustrophedon. The reader begins at the bottom left-hand corner of a tablet, reads a line from left to right, then rotates the tablet 180 degrees to continue on the next line from left to right again. When reading one line, the lines above and below it appear upside down. However, the writing continues onto the second side of the tablet at the point where it finishes off the first, so if the first side has an odd number of lines, the second will start at the upper left-hand corner, and the direction of writing shifts to top to bottom. Larger tablets and staves may have been read without turning, if the reader were able to read upside-down. On this imitation tablet, a few glyphs have been highlighted and sorted by pair, one right-side up and the other upside down.
Français : Les glyphes dans le système d'écriture rongorongo sont écrits à l'envers en boustrophedon inversé. Le lecteur commence dans le coin inférieur gauche d'une tablette, lit une ligne de gauche à droite, puis fait pivoter la tablette de 180 degrés pour continuer sur la ligne suivante, de gauche à droite encore. Lors de la lecture d'une ligne, les lignes au-dessus et en dessous apparaissent à l'envers. Cependant, l'écriture se poursuit sur le deuxième côté d'une tablette au point où elle termine sur le premier, donc si le premier côté a un nombre impair de lignes, le second commencera au coin gauche supérieur, et la direction de l'écriture se déplace de haut en bas. Les tablettes plus grandes pourraient avoir été lues sans être retournées, si le lecteur savait lire à l'envers. Sur cette pièce imitée (non authentique), quelques glyphes ont été mis en évidence et triés par paire, l'un à l'endroit et l'autre à l'envers. |
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