Translingual

Alternative forms

• '
• (transliterated Cyrillic): ′

Punctuation mark

’

1. Used as a quotation mark in some languages.
   1. ‘ ’
   2. ’ ‘
   3. ’ ’
   4. ‚ ’
2. (in transliterated Cyrillic text) Transliteration of the soft sign (ь), indicating palatalization of preceding consonants.
3. (in transliterated Arabic and Hebrew text) Transliteration of the glottal stop (hamza).
4. A glottal stop in the orthography of numerous languages of America, Africa, and formerly the Pacific. In most Polynesian languages, the convention has shifted to the okina <ʻ>.
5. (informal) A substitute for the diacritic ʼ used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for ejective and other glottalized consonants.

See also

Punctuation

Belarusian

Symbol

’

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

Ukrainian

Symbol

’

1. Indicating the non-palatalization of the preceding consonant before a soft vowel.
2. Representing the apostrophe in names transliterated from the Roman alphabet, for example Кот-д’Івуар (Côte d’Ivoire).