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

Most common

	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	?	!	( )	:	;
Latin	,	.	? common ¿...? Spanish	! common ¡...! Spanish	( )	:	;
Greek	,	.	;	!	( )	:	‧
Ge'ez	፣	።	፧	!	( )	፥	፤
Han	，	。	？	！	（ ）	：	；
Japanese (Han + Hiragana + Katakana)	、	。	(period as formal) ？ informal	！	（ ）	：	；
Korean (Hangul + Han)	, horizontal 、 vertical	.	?	!	( )	:	;
Sinhala	,	. new ෴ old	?	!	( )	:	;
Thai	(none)	(space)	?	!	( )	:	;
Vai	꘍	꘎	꘏	꘎꘎	( )	:	;

Note:

• Punctuation in Han and Japanese are full-width
• Some symbols look like corresponding ones in Latin script, but they have different Unicode codes.

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, PRC 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		‘…’
Romanian		«…»	none
Polish		«…» »…«
Hungarian		»…«
Czech German Icelandic Slovak Slovenian 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, ROC Japanese	「…」 ﹁ ⋮ ﹂	『…』 ﹃ ⋮ ﹄
Korean, ROK	『…』 ﹃ ⋮ ﹄	「…」 ﹁ ⋮ ﹂
Korean, DPRK New Tai Lue Tai Le Tibetan	《…》	〈…〉
Lojban	lu … li'u

Decimal separator

punctuation	.	,	٫
country or region	Australia Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Bangladesh Barbados Belize Benin Bermuda British Virgin Islands Botswana Brunei Cambodia Cannada, English Cayman Islands Democratic People's Republic of Korea Dominica Dominican Republic Egypt El Salvador Ethiopia Grenada Ghana Guatemala Guyana Honduras Hong Kong India Ireland Israel Jamaica Japan Kenya Lebanon Libya Liberia Liechtenstein Luxembourg Macau 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 Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Singapore South Africa Sri Lanka Sudan Switzerland Tanzania Thailand The Bahamas Togo Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands Uganda United Kingom United States Zambia Zimbabwe	Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Argentina Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Canada, French Chile Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czechia Democratic Republic of Congo Denmark Ecuador Equatorial Guinea Estonia Faroes Islands Finland France French Guiana Gabun Germany Georgia Greece Greenland Hungary Iceland Indonesia Italy Kazakhstan Kosovo Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lebanon Lithuania Luxembourg Macau, Portuguese Macedonia (FYROM) Madagascar Mali Moldova Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Namibia Netherlands Niger Norway Paraguay Peru Poland Portugal Republic of Congo Romania Russia Rwanda San Marino Senegal Serbia Sierra leone Slovakia Slovenia South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Timor Leste 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

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 (DPRK)	to enumerate items
‧	partition sign in Chinese and enumeration comma in Korean (ROK)	to separate characters in non-Han personal names in Chinese; to enumerate items in Korean