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Shahmukhi alphabet

Hey kiddo! Do you know that there are many different ways people write and read languages all around the world? One of them is called Shahmukhi alphabet.

Shahmukhi is a way of writing the Punjabi language, which is spoken in parts of Pakistan and India. It's different from the English alphabet that we use to write in schools and books.

The Shahmukhi alphabet has 35 letters, and each letter makes a different sound. Just like how each of the 26 English letters have a unique sound. But unlike English, where you write from left to right, Shahmukhi is written from right to left, just like how you would read a book in Arabic or Hebrew.

You might be wondering what the Shahmukhi letters look like, right? Well, they look very different from the English letters because they have different shapes and scripts. For example, the letter "a" in Shahmukhi looks like this "ا", and the letter "t" looks like this "ت". See how they're different from the English letters?

When you write in Shahmukhi, you use a special pen or marker to make the letters. A lot of people in Pakistan use Shahmukhi to write letters, poems, and even to text on their phones!

So, that's a little bit about Shahmukhi alphabet. It's just one way of writing a language and it helps people who speak Punjabi to read and write in their language. Cool, right?
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