Editing Interpunct (section)

=== Greek ===
{{anchor|Ano teleia|Greek semicolon}}
[[Ancient Greek]] lacked spacing or interpuncts but instead ran all the letters together. By [[Late Antiquity]], various marks were used to separate words, particularly the [[Greek comma]].<ref name=tlg/>

In [[Greek language|modern Greek]], the '''ano teleia''' mark ({{langx|el|άνω τελεία|ánō teleía|upper stop}}; also known as {{langx|el|άνω στιγμή|áno stigmí|label=none}}) is the infrequently-encountered Greek semicolon and is properly [[romanization of Greek|romanized]] as such.<ref name=elot>{{lang|el|Ελληνικός Οργανισμός Τυποποίησης}} [''Ellīnikós Organismós Typopoíīsīs'', "[[Hellenic Organization for Standardization]]"]. {{lang|el|ΕΛΟΤ 743, 2η Έκδοση}} [''ELOT 743, 2ī Ekdosī'', "ELOT 743, {{nowrap|2nd ed.}}"]. ELOT (Athens), 2001. {{in lang|el}}.</ref> In Greek text, [[Unicode]] provides the code point {{unichar|0387|Greek ano teleia}},<ref>[[Unicode]]. "[https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0370.pdf Unicode Greek code chart]", {{nowrap|pp. 34,}} 36.</ref> however, it is also expressed as an interpunct. In practice, the separate code point for ano teleia canonically decomposes to the interpunct.<ref name=tlg>{{cite web|url=http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/punctuation.html#semicolon |title=Thesaurus Linguae Graecae |publisher=www.tlg.uci.edu |access-date=2011-01-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120806003722/http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/punctuation.html |archive-date=2012-08-06 }}</ref>

The Hellenistic scholars of [[Alexandria]] first developed the mark for a function closer to the [[comma]], before it fell out of use and was then repurposed for its present role.<ref name=tlg/>