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

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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
  • Ethiopia
  • Grenada
  • Ghana
  • Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Guatemala
  • Guyana
  • Honduras
  • Hong Kong
  • India
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Kenya
  • Lebanon
  • 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 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 States of America
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe
  • Ireland
  • Malaysia
  • Philippines
  • Republic of China
  • Singapore
  • 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
  • Gabon
  • Germany
  • Georgia
  • Greece
  • Greenland
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Indonesia
  • Italy
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kosovo
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Macau (Portuguese)
  • Macedonia
  • 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

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 + + + + + + + + +

Colon

Semicolon

Period

Question mark

Exclamation mark

Quotation marks

Ellipse

Brackets

Parentheses

Apostrophe

Slash

Angle brackets

Braces

Hyphen

En dash

Em dash

Contributors

GrimPixel, Vincent, Maintenance script and AussieInBg


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