PUNCT:
Definition
Punctuation marks are non-alphabetical characters and character groups used to structure the text or highlight parts of it.
The use of punctuation marks depends on the scribe. They can vary in shape, though three dots marking the vertices of a triangle or two parallel vertical lines are common.
Sentence breaks are usually not indicated. There are no special symbols for marking a question, an exclamation, an intonation break, or focus.
Some scribes highlight captions, others the switch from one language to another (typically in Avestan manuscripts with Middle Persian translations). Some scribes mark the content units, which may or may not concur with a syntactic unit.
All punctuation marks are transcribed by a comma. Only if a punctuation mark appears in the middle of a word, it is transcribed by a semicolon.
Examples
- ⸪
- ⳼
- •
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