Editing Comma (section)

=== West Asia ===
{{vanchor|Arabic|text=The comma in the [[Arabic script]] used by languages including [[Arabic]], [[Urdu]], and [[Persian language|Persian]], is "upside-down" {{angbr|{{lang|ar|،}}}} ({{unichar|060C}}), in order to distinguish it from the [[Arabic diacritic]] {{transliteration|ar|ALA|ḍammah}} {{angbr|{{lang|ar|ُ}}}} representing the vowel {{IPA|/u/}}, which is similarly shaped.<ref>{{Cite book |last=AbiFarès |first=Huda Smitshuijzen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UacVAQAAIAAJ |title=Arabic Typography: A Comprehensive Sourcebook |publisher=Saqi Books |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-86356-347-8 |location=London |page=106 |quote=The comma used in Arabic script is not only a mirror image of its Latin counterpart, but its tail is also turned upwards in order to avoid any possibility of confusing it with the ''Dammah'', the ''u'' short vowel mark.}}</ref> In Arabic texts, the Western-styled comma ({{lang|ar|٫}}) is used as a [[decimal point]].}}

[[Hebrew script]] is also written from right to left. However, [[Hebrew punctuation]] includes only a regular comma {{angbr|{{lang|he|,}}}}.