See also: ' [U+0027 APOSTROPHE] ,
ʼ [U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE] ,
ʹ [U+02B9 MODIFIER LETTER PRIME] ,
′ [U+2032 PRIME] ,
᾿ [U+1FBF GREEK PSILI] ,
᾽ [U+1FBD GREEK KORONIS] , and ‘ ’ The ASCII apostrophe may be used for all language-specific forms listed below:
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Used as aquotation mark in some languages.‘ ’ ’ ‘ ’ ’ ‚ ’ ‛ ’ ( informal ) A substitute for the letter⟨ ʼ ⟩ glottal stop andejective consonants in the orthographies of various languages of America, Africa, and the Pacific. ( informal , intransliterated Arabic andHebrew text) A substitute for⟨ ʼ ⟩ hamza . ( informal , intransliterated Cyrillic text) A substitute for the modifying diacritic⟨ ʹ ⟩ soft sign ⟨ ь ⟩ palatalized consonants. ( international standards ) avagraha ऽ (or equivalents)Punctuation
quotation marks and quotation dashes - all single characters
Curved double quotation marks:“ ” „ ‟ Curved single quotation marks and apostrophes:‘ ’ ‚ ‛ Straight double quotation mark:" Straight single quotation mark and apostrophe:' Prime quotation marks:〝 〞 〟 Guillemets:« » Single guillemets:‹ › Corner brackets:「 」 『 』 Quotation dashes:— em dash ) ·― – ’
Indicating the omission of letters or digits.tho’ they’ ll ,’ 65’ ospital When indicating a possessive (see-' apostrophe . Some use thehomoglyph ʼ U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE ) instead.[ 1] ’
Armenian apostrophe,ապաթարց ( apatʻarcʻ ) InOld Armenian placed before the prepositionի ( i ) to differentiate it from words starting with the letter ի. ’ի տուն ―’i tun ―to home In literaryWestern Armenian , replaces reduced vowels, especially in the case of the particlesկը ( kə ) ,մը ( mə ) ,չի ( čʻi ) . կ’ըսէ ―k’əsē ―says չ’երթար ―čʻ’ertʻar ―doesn't go In transliterating European proper nouns with apostrophes, such as names with the particlesd’ O' Ժաննա դ’Արկ ―Žanna d’Ark ―Joan of Arc According to the Unicode Standard, U+055A ARMENIAN APOSTROPHE has the same shape and function as the Latin apostrophe at U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, which is preferred.[ 1] ’
Indicating the non-palatalization of the precedingconsonant before asoft vowel . ’
Alternative spelling of’ See the usage notes under the entry.
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Indicating the omission of letters.In case of enclitic pronouns:wenn es → wenn’s, gibt es → gibt’s ( sometimes proscribed ) In case of merging of prepositions and articles:auf dem → auf’m In case of omission ofe in the present indicative:ich gehe → ich geh’, wir/sie gehen → wir/sie geh’n ( sometimes proscribed ) In case of the omission ofe in the imperative singular: gehe du → geh’ du( archaic ) In case of the omission ofe in the imperative plural:gehet ihr → geh’t ihr ( archaic ) In case of the omission ofe in the past participle:entdecket → entdeck’t, bezeuget → bezeug’t ( archaic ) In case of the omission ofe in the genitive case:Gottes → Gott’s, Königes → König’s In many cases where letters are omitted, there are also spellings without an apostrophes (e.g. wenns, aufm, gehn, geh, geht, entdeckt). ’
( rare ) used to indicate silent vowels ( rare ) used to compound foreign words, names and abbreviations with Lithuanian suffixes TASS →TASS’as (please add an English translation of this usage example) Phonetic respellings are preferred over the latter sense. ’
A symbol placed before a syllabicр ( r ) at the beginning of a word:’рт ,’рѓа ,’рбет ,’рмба etc. A symbol used to denote the schwa sound in some dialectal words:к’смет . ’
A symbol in theArmeno-Turkish script used to spell words containingع ء glottal stop :[ʔ] . Transliterated as' This was often unpronounced, and is not written in Modern Turkish anymore. For example, Ottomanساعت սա’աթ ( saʼat ) is Modern Turkishsaat
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Indicates the non-palatalization of the precedingconsonant before asoft vowel . Represents the apostrophe in names transliterated from the Latin alphabet. Кот-д’Івуар ―Kot-dʺIvuar ―Côte d’Ivoire 
