* European Languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, etc.
* Many Asian Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, etc.
* Many African Languages: Swahili, Yoruba, Igbo, etc.
* Some North American Languages: English, French, Spanish, etc.
* Many South American Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, etc.
* Many Oceanic Languages: English, French, etc.
Some notable exceptions to this include:
* Arabic and Hebrew: Read right to left.
* Japanese: Read in a combination of vertical columns and horizontal rows, depending on the type of writing.
* Chinese and Korean: Read vertically from top to bottom, but the columns can run from left to right or right to left depending on the context.
* Thai: Read from left to right, but with a unique system of combining characters.
* Many indigenous languages of the Americas: Have their own writing systems and directions.
So, while left-to-right is the most common reading direction, it's important to remember that there are exceptions and diverse writing systems around the world.