՚

՚ U+055A, ՚
ARMENIAN APOSTROPHE
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Armenian

Punctuation mark

՚

  1. Armenian apostrophe, ապաթարց (apatʿarcʿ)
    1. In Old Armenian placed before the preposition ի (i) to differentiate it from words starting with ի- (i-).
      ՚ի տուն ― ’i tun ― to home
    2. In literary Western Armenian, replaces reduced vowels, especially in the case of the particles կը (kə), մը (mə), չի (čʿi).
      կ՚ասէ ― k’asē ― says
      չ’երթար ― čʿ’ertʿar ― doesn't go
    3. In transliterating European proper nouns with apostrophes, such as names with the particles d', O', transliterates the apostrophe.
      Ժաննա դ’Արկ ― Žanna d’Ark ― Joan of Arc

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