Language/Multiple-languages/Grammar/Punctuation-of-many-languages
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Most common
comma | period | question mark | exclamation mark | parentheses | colon | semicolon | |
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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 (Han + Hiragana + Katakana) | 、
vertical; horizontal Jichishō standard , horizontal Monbushō standard |
。 | ?
informal (period as the formal) |
! | (…) | : | ; |
Korean (Hangul + Han) | ,
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
Some of them have alternatives
language | primary | secondary | spacing |
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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 |
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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 | 『…』
﹃ |
「…」
﹁ |
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Korean, DPRK
New Tai Lue Tai Le Tibetan |
《…》 | 〈…〉 | |
Lojban | lu … li'u |
Decimal separator
punctuation | . | , | ٫ |
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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, 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 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 Gabon 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 | . | , | ٫ |
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constructed language | Esperanto
Ido Interlingua Volapük |
Tally marks (not punctuation)
This section should be removed and appear in a lesson about numerals. It will be here before that lesson created.
region | mark |
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Most of Europe, Zimbabwe, Australia, New Zealand and North America | |
France, Spain, their former colonies and Brazil | |
Cultures using Chinese characters |
Special
note | name | usages |
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『 』 「 」 | 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 |
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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English | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |