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==Upside-down interrobang <span class="anchor" id="Inverted interrobang"></span> ==<!-- courtesy comment per [[WP:RSECT]]: [Inverted question and exclamation marks#Mixtures of question marks and exclamation points]] links here. --> An upside-down interrobang (combining ¿ and ¡, Unicode character: ⸘), suitable for starting phrases in [[Spanish (language)|Spanish]], [[Galician language|Galician]], and [[Asturian language|Asturian]]—which use [[inverted question and exclamation marks]]—is called an "inverted interrobang" or, rarely, a ''gnaborretni'' (''interrobang'' spelled backwards).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2E00.pdf |title=Unicode Code Charts, Supplemental Punctuation, 2E00–2E7F |access-date=March 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812080522/http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2E00.pdf |archive-date=August 12, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref> In current practice, interrobang-like emphatic ambiguity in Hispanic languages is usually achieved by including both sets of punctuation marks one inside the other (''¿¡De verdad!?'' or ''¡¿De verdad?!'' [''Really!?'']).<ref>[[Real Academia Española|RAE]]'s [https://www.rae.es/dpd/interrogaci%C3%B3n Diccionario Panhispánico de Dudas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508023039/https://www.rae.es/dpd/interrogaci%C3%B3n |date=May 8, 2020 }} {{in lang|es}}</ref> Older usage, still official but not widespread, recommended mixing the punctuation marks: ''¡Verdad?'' or ''¿Verdad!''<ref>{{cite book |last=de Buen |first=Jorge |title=Manual de diseño editorial |edition=3rd |publisher=Trea |location=Gijón |year=2008 |isbn=978-84-9704-378-6}}{{page needed|date=June 2013}}</ref> {{further information|Upside-down question and exclamation marks#Mixtures}}
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