In
punctuation, a
word divider is a
glyph that separates written words. In languages which use the
Latin,
Cyrillic, and
Arabic alphabets, as well as other languages of Europe and the Mideast, the word divider is a blank
space, or
whitespace, a convention which is spreading, along with other aspects of European punctuation, to Asia and Africa. However, many languages of East Asia are written without word separation (Saenger 2000).