Comment by arp242
3 years ago
> in Germany, we quote „like this“ instead of “like this”
This is also the traditional style in Dutch; it's what I was taught at school. These days many just use "upper quotes". You can still find the traditional style in books and some newspapers, but others have switched over the years.
In traditional Ethiopian you would use ፡ as a word separator, and ። as a full stop. Over time, people have started to "just" use the space as a word separator. There's some Wikipedia pages that mix both styles; for example on [1] you can see ፡ being used for the first three paragraphs and then it switches to a space. I rather like being able to see the evolution of language/typography on a single page.
[1]: https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%A0%E1%88%9B%E1%88%AD%E1...
Interesting. I also see a few periods and a lot of colons with a line over them.
What do they mean? Just curious.
Comma, question mark, stuff like that. There's an overview at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amharic#Punctuation
Thanks. I wasn't aware of this type of script either; I like it. Sort of a "missing link"(of course there is no historical relationship) between Kana in Japanese and Hangul in Korean.