2007-10-20 05:53:09 · 6 answers · asked by josefina 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
No. Most languages I know have their own punctuation, e.g. many use these << >> for quotation marks, some put full stops/periods at the top of the line.
2007-10-20 06:05:04 · answer #1 · answered by Rembrandt Q. Einstein 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! Think how different these languages are from each other: English, Hebrew and Mandarin.
Punctuation is just a way of signaling to the reader how thoughts are related or segmented from each other in a piece of writing. And they have their own ways of doing it as others above have described.
Different language families are structured differently. Their structure tell the reader how to understand the relationship of thoughts, either through things such as special word endings or word order in the sentence, and unique punctuation marks.
Depending upon the structure of a language, some languages use similar punctuation, others use different types of punctuation or use it to different degrees from other languages. Some use punctuation hardly at all.
2007-10-20 13:05:37 · answer #2 · answered by Joe_D 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. The only language that I really know is Spanish. We use upside-down question marks at the beginning of a question as well as a question mark at the end. We use accent marks and tildes.
2007-10-20 12:57:32 · answer #3 · answered by ♥Angel Eyez♥ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well partially, in india they use commas, question marks and stuff. but at the end of sentences they put long lines ( like half of the parallel symbol) instead of periods
2007-10-20 12:56:44 · answer #4 · answered by jdhfaldf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Just as another example, in German "quotes" are (sometimes) like this ,,quotes" (with the curly bits facing outwards, though it won't show up in this font.
2007-10-20 13:32:17 · answer #5 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope
In greek we use this symbol ; instead of ?
This ' instead of ;
and in numbers we use , for . and vice versa
2007-10-20 13:04:54 · answer #6 · answered by phoebus16 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋