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And in some other languages like Arabic, Persian, Urdu the absence of word divider is compensated with multiple forms of every alphabet.

So at most every alphabet can have 4 forms, depending upon its position in the word: start, middle, end and standalone (but there are caveats)

Also in these languages usual punctuation marks are inverted like question mark, comma is drawn the other way round

After a while one gets used to it.

I think by "alphabet" you mean "character"?

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