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Alternative forms
The ASCII apostrophe may be used for all language-specific forms listed below:

Punctuation mark

 * 1) Used as a quotation mark in some languages.
 * 2) ‘ ’
 * 3) ’ ‘
 * 4) ’ ’
 * 5) ‚ ’
 * 6) ‛ ’
 * 7)  transliteration of Sanskrit avagraha ऽ (or equivalents)
 * 1)  transliteration of Sanskrit avagraha ऽ (or equivalents)
 * 1)  transliteration of Sanskrit avagraha ऽ (or equivalents)
 * 1)  transliteration of Sanskrit avagraha ऽ (or equivalents)

Symbol

 * 1) Indicating the omission of letters or digits.
 * tho’, they’ll, ’65, ’ospital

Usage notes

 * When indicating a possessive (see ) and omission of letters, this symbol is called an apostrophe.

Usage notes

 * According to the Unicode Standard, U+055A ARMENIAN APOSTROPHE has the same shape and function as the Latin apostrophe at U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, which is preferred.

Symbol

 * 1) Indicating the non-palatalization of the preceding consonant before a soft vowel.

Usage notes
See the usage notes under the entry.

Symbol

 * 1) Indicating the omission of letters.
 * 2) * In case of enclitic pronouns: wenn es → wenn’s, gibt es → gibt’s
 * 3) * In case of merging of prepositions and articles: auf dem → auf’m
 * 4) * In case of omission of e in the present indicative: ich gehe → ich geh’, wir/sie gehen → wir/sie geh’n
 * 5) * In case of the omission of e in the imperative singular: gehe du → geh’ du''
 * 6) * In case of the omission of e in the imperative plural: gehet ihr → geh’t ihr
 * 7) * In case of the omission of e in the past participle: entdecket → entdeck’t, bezeuget → bezeug’t
 * 8) * In case of the omission of e in the genitive case: Gottes → Gott’s, Königes → König’s

Usage notes

 * In many cases where letters are omitted, there are also spellings without an apostrophes (e.g. wenns, aufm, gehn, geh, geht, entdeckt).

Symbol

 * 1) A symbol placed before a syllabic  at the beginning of a word: ’рт, ’рѓа, ’рбет, ’рмба etc.
 * 2) A symbol used to denote the schwa sound in some dialectal words: к’смет.

Letter

 * 1) A symbol in the Armeno-Turkish script used to spell words containing  and  in the Perso-Arabic script. Represents glottal stop: . Transliterated as '.

Usage notes
This was often unpronounced, and is not written in Modern Turkish anymore. For example, Ottoman, is Modern Turkish.