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آ ب پ ت ث ج چ ح خ د ذ ر ز ژ س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ل م ن و ه ی
There are 32 letters in the Persian الفبا.
Persian is written from right to left. So آ is the first letter.
The 32 Persian letters above can be thought of as the capital letters.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
There are 26 letters in the English alphabet

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
English has capital and lowercase for each letter. (only one each)

It's not quite so simple in فارسی. Some letters do not have a lowercase form:
د ذ ر ز ژ ط ظ و

Three حروف have four forms:
ععع ع, غغغ غ, ههه ه

The rest of the letters have two forms:
آ ا, بب, پپ, تت, ثث, جج, چچ, حح, خخ, سس, شش, صص, ضض, فف, قق, کک, گگ, لل, مم, نن, یی

In english we capitalize the first letter of each sentence.
In persian we capitalize the last letter of each word, unless it ends with ا.
آ is the only capital letter that comes at the beginning of a word, as in: آب
and is the only lowercase letter that comes at the end of a word: بابا



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