Languages
Finally, print is also language dependent and this may generally affect readability. In German print, for example, the first letter of every noun is capitalized. Languages also differ with regard to the average length of words; a combination of narrow columns and justification could thus be managed more easily in Italian print than in another language. Moreover, a number of different alphabets exist, each with entailing rules of orientation and the forming of words. Chinese writing, for instance, has a totally different system, the reading of which progresses from top to bottom rather than from left to right. For such a language, the term line width has another meaning than the one used for print in the Roman alphabet.