And if so, how do they label headphones, contact lenses etc?

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In French it’s Gauche and Droite so no problem here, but every product is labeled L&R because we live in a global market and English is clearly the dominating language. Most consumer product are made in China for the entire world so my guess is everybody understands L&R at this point.

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Also, at this point, it might just ingrained in people there is a L-side and a R-side which correspond with their equivalent of left and right even without knowing English. It can be abstracted as consistent symbols if nothing else.

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Now the question becomes, is there a language where the word for “left” starts with R and “right” starts with L?

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Indonesian does; kiri (left) and kanan (right). “Ki” and “Ka” are usually used in texts (e.g., for captions in newspaper/magazine articles), but for headphones, contact lenses, etc it’s normally just L/R.

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Turkish:

Left: sol, right: sağ

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And the products are labeled L and R

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I’ve found:

Malay: kiri (left) and kanan (right)

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Though Malaysian headphones are usually labelled L and R too

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Kaliwa, Kanan (left, right respectively)

Edit; this is in the Tagalog language, we use English for our gadgets

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We use English for almost everything tbh.

Hindi ko nga naisip yung Kaliwa Kanan kung di ko pa nabasa itong comment lmao my English speaking brain

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