Language/Multiple-languages/Grammar/Punctuation-of-many-languages

Marks

Most Common

	Vai	Bamum	Latin	Greek	Cyrillic Georgian Hebrew	Armenian	Ge'ez	Arabic	Devanagari	Bengali Telugu Tamil Gujarati Gurmukhi Malayalam Kannada Oriya	Sinhala	Thai	Chinese	Korean	Japanese
comma	꘍	꛵	,	,	,	,	፣	، common ⹁ Sindhi	,	,	,	(none)	，	, horizontal 、vertical	、
period	꘎	꛳	.	.	.	։	።	. common ۔ Urdu	। common . Marathi	। common . alternative	. new ෴ old	(space)	。	.	。
question mark	꘏	꛷	? common ¿...? Spanish	;	?	՞	፧	؟	?	?	?	?	？	?	(period as formal) ？ informal
exclamation mark	꘎꘎	!	! common ¡...! Spanish	!	!	՜	!	!	!	!	!	!	！	!	！
parentheses	( )	( )	( )	( )	( )	( )	( )	( )	( )	( )	( )	( )	（）	( )	（）
colon	:	꛴	:	:	:	․	፥	:	:	:	:	:	：	:	：
semicolon	;	꛶	;	‧	;	;	፤	؛	;	;	;	;	；	;	；

Note:

• Puctuation in Japanese and Chinese are full-width
• Some symbols look like semicolon and colon in Latin script, but they have different codes in computers.

Quotation marks

Some of them have alternatives

language	primary	secondary	spacing
English, United Kindom Scottish Gaelic Welsh	‘…’	“…”	English: 1–2 pt Welsh: 1–2 pt
Afrikaans Chinese, China English, United States English, Canada Esperanto Filipino Hindi Indonesian Irish Interlingua Maltese Portuguese, Brazil Thai	“…”	‘…’	English: 1–2 pt Chinese: fullwidth Irish: 1–2 pt
Lao Vietnamese	“…”
Finnish Swedish	”…”	’…’
Bosnian	”…” „…”	’…’
Dutch Hebrew	„…”	‚…’
Serbian	„…”	’…’
Croatian	„…”	‘…’
Polish	„…”	«…» »…«
Romanian	„…”	«…»	none
Hungarian	„…”	»…«
Czech German Icelandic Slovak Slovene Sorbian	„…“	‚…‘
Bulgarian	„…“	’…’ ‘…’
Macedonian	„…“	’…‘
Albanian	„…“	‘…’
Estonian Georgian Lithuanian	„…“		Georgian: none
Amharic Azerbaijani Basque French, Switzerland German, Switzerland Italian, Switzerland Romansh Tigrinya Turkish	«…» ‏		Arabic: optional
French	« … »	“…” « … »	¼ em
Belarusian Catalan Greek Italian Occitan Portuguese, Portugal Spanish	«…»	“…”	Catalan: none
Russian Ukrainian Uzbek	«…»	„…“	Russian: none Ukranian: none
Norwegian	«…»	’…’
Arabic Armenian Kazakh Khmer Latvian Mongolian Cyrillic Pashto Persian Uyghur	«…» ‏		Arabic: optional
Danish	»…« „…“	›…‹ ‚…‘
Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese, Taiwan Japanese	「…」 ﹁ ⋮ ﹂	『…』 ﹃ ⋮ ﹄	Chinese: fullwidth
Korean, South Korea	『…』 ﹃ ⋮ ﹄	「…」 ﹁ ⋮ ﹂
Korean, North Korea New Tai Lue Tai Le Tibetan	《…》	〈…〉
Lojban	lu … li'u

Special

note	name	usages
『　』 「　」	title marks in Japanese	to indicate titles of books, movies, etc.
《　》 〈　〉	title marks in Chinese	to indicate titles of books, movies, etc.
♪	musical note in Japanese	to indicate lyrics in a sentence
¿	inverted question mark in Spanish	to indicate the begining of an interrogative sentence or phrase
¡	inverted exclamation mark in Spanish	to indicate the begining of an exclamatory sentence or phrase
、	enumeration comma in Chinese (PRC) and Korean (North Korea)	to enumerate items
‧	partition sign in Chinese and enumeration comma in Korean (South Korea)	to separate characters in non-Han personal names in Chinese; to enumerate items in Korean