>.... We wouldn't even have upper and lowercase letters to start with (and that might have been a good thing).
nope
it's superflous. a sentence starts after a punctation or on position 1. (ok. on some letterbased languages in some cases after an inital punctation)
it's only our habit to expect it. if you would have learned reading without it, you wouldn't even notice.
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>Cetin
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