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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:Why do so many languages, even when some use a completely different alphabet from English, use the same punctuation at the end of their sentences?
gpt
Western influence.

Some languages have independently invented their own versions of various punctuation. For example, there are several different variations of the period. However, Western influence is causing some cultures to forego their traditional full-stop mark for the period as we know it in English.

For some other characters where the concept previously did not exist in the language (like the question mark in Japanese), they just purely imported it from English.