Question mark, exclamation mark, colon and semicolon

The colon has three main places: in a conjunction-less composite sentence when the second part opens up and explains the first, after the author’s words that precede direct speech, and after a generalizing word that precedes homogeneous parts. A colon also comes before a list: “Sumkamda uchta narsa bor: daftar, qalam, kitob”. The semicolon is used when the simple sentences in a conjunction-less composite sentence express complete thoughts and are not very close to each other, when their events are compared, or when groups of homogeneous parts are separated and are themselves divided by commas. If list items are given on separate lines, they end with a semicolon and the last with a full stop.