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Armenian

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Punctuation mark

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  1. Armenian apostrophe, ապաթարց (apatʻarcʻ)
    1. In Old Armenian placed before the preposition ի (i) to differentiate it from words starting with ի- (i-).
      ՚ի տուն’i tunto home
    2. In literary Western Armenian, replaces reduced vowels, especially in the case of the particles կը (), մը (), չի (čʻi).
      կ՚ասէk’asēsays
      չ’երթարčʻ’ertʻardoesn't go
    3. In transliterating European proper nouns with apostrophes, such as names with the particles d’, O', transliterates the apostrophe.
      Ժաննա դ’ԱրկŽanna d’ArkJoan of Arc

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