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Looks like there was a moment between Archaic Latin and Roman when a lot of letters got turned around

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Yep, because Phoenician was a RTL language, but its descents are LTR. Later on, they flipped letters to match the direction, since it was uncomfortable to write letters from a right to left language from left to right.

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