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 |
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،
common ⹁ Sindhi |
.
common ۔ Urdu |
؟ | ! | (…) | : | ؛ |
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, | ։ | ՞ | ՜ | (…) | ․ | ; |
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꛵ | ꛳ | ꛷ | ! | (…) | ꛴ | ꛶ |
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, | ।
common . alternative |
? | ! | (…) | : | ; |
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, | . | ? | ! | (…) | : | ; |
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, | ।
common . Marathi |
? | ! | (…) | : | ; |
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, | . | ; | ! | (…) | : | ‧ |
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፣ | ። | ፧ | ! | (…) | ፥ | ፤ |
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, | 。 | ? | ! | (…) | : | ; |
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、
vertical; horizontal Jichishō standard , horizontal Monbushō standard |
。 | ?
informal (period as the formal) |
! | (…) | : | ; |
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,
horizontal 、 vertical |
. | ? | ! | (…) | : | ; |
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, | . | ?
common ¿…? Spanish, Catalan |
!
common ¡…! Spanish, Catalan |
(…) | : | ; |
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, | .
new ෴ old |
? | ! | (…) | : | ; |
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(none) | (space) | ? | ! | (…) | : | ; |
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,
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
Some of them have alternatives
language | primary | secondary | spacing |
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English, Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Scottish Gaelic Welsh |
‘…’ | “…” | English: 1–2 pt
Welsh: 1–2 pt |
Afrikaans
Chinese, People's Republic of China English, United States of America English, Canada Esperanto Filipino Hindi Indonesian Irish Interlingua Maltese Portuguese, Brazil Thai |
“…” | ‘…’ | English: 1–2 pt
Chinese: fullwidth Irish: 1–2 pt |
Lao
Vietnamese |
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Finnish
Swedish |
”…” | ’…’ | |
Bosnian | ”…”
„…” |
’…’ | |
Dutch
Hebrew |
„…” | ‚…’ | |
Serbian | ’…’ | ||
Croatian | ‘…’ | ||
Romanian | «…» | none | |
Polish | «…»
»…« |
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Hungarian | »…« | ||
Czech
German Icelandic Slovak Slovenian Sorbian |
„…“ | ‚…‘ | |
Bulgarian | ’…’
‘…’ |
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Macedonian | ’…‘ | ||
Albanian | ‘…’ | ||
Estonian
Georgian Lithuanian |
Georgian: none | ||
French | «…» | “…”
« … » |
¼ em |
Belarusian
Catalan Greek Italian Occitan Portuguese, Portugal Spanish |
“…” | Catalan: none | |
Russian
Ukrainian Uzbek |
„…“ | Russian: none
Ukranian: none | |
Norwegian | ’…’ | ||
Arabic
Amharic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque French, Switzerland German, Switzerland Italian, Switzerland Kazakh Khmer Latvian Mongolian (Cyrillic) Pashto Persian Romansh Tigrinya Turkish Uyghur |
Arabic: optional | ||
Danish | »…«
„…“ |
›…‹
‚…‘ |
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Chinese, Hong Kong
Chinese, ROC Japanese |
「…」 ﹁ |
『…』 ﹃ ﹄ |
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Korean, ROK | 『…』
﹃ |
「…」
﹁ |
|
Korean, DPRK
New Tai Lue Tai Le Tibetan |
《…》 | 〈…〉 | |
Lojban | lu … li'u | lu “…” li’u |
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark
Decimal Separators
punctuation | . | · | , | ٫ |
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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 | . | , | ٫ |
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constructed language | Esperanto
Ido Interlingua Volapük |
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
Digit Grouping Symbols
punctuation | , | . | ' | (space) |
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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 | |
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