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

Symbol

The most common

Note: the followings are scripts instead of languages.

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

Note:

• Punctuation in Han and Japanese are full-width
• Some symbols look the same, but they have different Unicode codes.

Quotation marks

language	primary	secondary	spacing
English, Great Britain and Northern Ireland Scottish Gaelic Welsh	‘…’	“…”	English: 1–2 pt Welsh: 1–2 pt
Afrikaans Chinese, People's Republic of China Dutch English, United States of America English, Canada Esperanto Filipino Hindi Interlingua Irish Korean, Republic of Korea Malay, Indonesia Maltese Portuguese, Brazil Spanish, Spain Tamil Thai Turkish Urdu	“…”	‘…’	English: 1–2 pt Chinese: fullwidth Irish: 1–2 pt
Lao Vietnamese	“…”
Latvian	“…” „…”
Finnish Swedish	”…”	’…’
Bosnian	”…” „…”	’…’
Hebrew	„…”	‚…’
Serbian	„…”	’…’
Croatian	„…”	‘…’
Romanian	„…”	«…»	none
Polish	„…”	»…«
Hungarian	„…”	»…«
Czech German, Germany Icelandic Lithuanian Slovak Slovenian Sorbian	„…“	‚…‘
Bulgarian	„…“	’…’ ‘…’
Macedonian	„…“	’…‘
Albanian	„…“	‘…’
Estonian Georgian	„…“		Georgian: none
Amharic French, Switzerland German, Switzerland Italian, Switzerland Romansh Uighur	«…» ‏	‹…› ‏
French, France	«…» ‏	“…” «…»	¼ em
Basque Catalan Galician Greek Italian, Italy Occitan Portuguese, Portugal Spanish, Spain	«…» ‏	“…”	Catalan: none
Azerbaijani Belarusian Mongolian (Cyrillic) Russian Uzbek	«…» ‏	„…“	Russian: none Ukranian: none
Ukrainian	«…»	“…” ‘…’
Ido	«…» ‏	‘…’
Norwegian	«…» ‏	’…’
Arabic Armenian Kazakh Khmer Pashto Persian Tigrinya Uyghur	«…»‏		Arabic: optional
Mongolian (Mongolian)	《…》	〈…〉
Danish	»…« "…"	›…‹ ‚…‘
Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese, Republic of China Japanese	「…」 「…」	『…』 『…』
Korean, Democratic People's Republic of Korea New Tai Lue Tai Le Tibetan	《…》	〈…〉
Lojban	lu … li'u

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark

Decimal separator

punctuation	.	·	,	٫
country or region	Australia Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Bangladesh Barbados Belize Benin Bermuda British Virgin Islands Botswana Brunei Cambodia Canada (English) Cayman Islands Democratic People's Republic of Korea Dominica Dominican Republic Egypt El Salvador Eswatini Ethiopia Falkland Island Grenada Ghana Great Britain and Northern Ireland Guatemala Guyana Honduras Hong Kong India Ireland Isle of Mann Israel Jamaica Japan Kenya Lebanon Lesotho Libya Liberia Liechtenstein Luxembourg Macau (Chinese) Malaysia Maldives Malta Malawi Mexico Montserrat Myanmar Namibia Nepal New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria Pakistan Palestine Panama People's Republic of China Philippines Puerto Rico Republic of China Republic of Korea Saint Helena, Ascencion and Tristan da Cunha Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Martin Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Singapore South Africa Sri Lanka Sudan Switzerland Tanzania Thailand The Bahamas The Gambia Togo Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands Uganda United States of America United States Virgin Islands Zambia Zimbabwe	Ireland Malaysia Philippines Republic of China Singapore	Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Argentina Armenia Aruba Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Benin Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cameroon Canada (French) Central African Republic Chad Chile Colombia Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Curaçao Cyprus Czechia Democratic Republic of Congo Denmark Ecuador Equatorial Guinea Estonia Faroes Islands Fiji Finland France French Guiana Gabon Germany Georgia Greece Greenland Guinea Guinea-Bissau Haiti Hungary Iceland Indonesia Italy Kazakhstan Kosovo Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lebanon Lithuania Luxembourg Macau (Portuguese) Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Namibia Netherlands New Caledonia Niger North Macedonia Norway Paraguay Peru Pitcairn Island Poland Portugal Republic of Congo Romania Russia Rwanda San Marino São Tomé and Príncipe Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Senegal Serbia Sierra Leone Slovakia Slovenia South Africa Spain Suriname Sweden Switzerland Tajikistan Timor-Leste Togo Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Ukraine Uruguay Uzbekistan Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam	Afghanistan Bahrain Egypt Iran Iraq Kuwait Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Sudan Syria United Arab Emirates

punctuation	.	,	٫
constructed language		Esperanto Ido Interlingua Volapük

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

Digit group delimiter

punctuation	,	.	'	(space)
country or region	Bangladesh Canada (English) Democratic People's Republic of Korea Great Britain and Northern Ireland Hong Kong India Ireland Israel Japan Malaysia Malta Mexico New Zealand Pakistan People's Republic of China Philippines Republic of China Singapore Thailand United States of America	Argentina Austria Belgium (Dutch) Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Denmark Germany Greece Indonesia Ireland Italy Malaysia Netherlands Philippines Republic of China Romania Singapore Slovenia Spain Turkey Vietnam	Liechtenstein Switzerland	Albania Australia Belgium (French) Bulgaria Canada (English) Canada (French) Czechia Estonia Finland France Hungary Italy Kosovo Latvia Lithuania Norway People's Republic of China Peru Poland Portugal Russia San Marino Slovakia South Africa Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Ukraine Vietnam

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

Usage

Comma

	to separate a series of nouns	to separate a series of adjectives	to separate a series of independent clauses	to separate a series of verbs	to separate a series of phrases	to enclose a non-defining relative clause	to form a participial phrase	to form a tag question	after an interjection
English	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+