The “handedness” of language: Directional symmetry breaking of sign usage in words

• Md. Izhar Ashraf ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Md. Izhar Ashraf, Sitabhra Sinha

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, B. S. Abdur Rahman University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Sitabhra Sinha

  Contributed equally to this work with: Md. Izhar Ashraf, Sitabhra Sinha

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sitabhra@imsc.res.in

  Affiliations The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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