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===Greek question mark=== The [[Greek language|Greek]] question mark ({{langx|el|ερωτηματικό|links=no|translit=erōtīmatikó}}) looks like {{char|;}}. It appeared around the same time as the Latin one, in the 8th century.<ref>{{cite book |last=Thompson |first=Edward Maunde |url=https://archive.org/details/greeklatin00thomuoft |via=[[Internet Archive]] |title=An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaiography |pages=[https://archive.org/details/greeklatin00thomuoft/page/60 60] ff |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |date=1912 |access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref> It was adopted by [[Church Slavonic]] and eventually settled on a form essentially similar to the Latin [[semicolon]]. In [[Unicode]], it is separately encoded as {{unichar|037E|GREEK QUESTION MARK}}, but the similarity is so great that the [[code point]] is [[Unicode normalisation|normalised]] to {{unichar|003B|SEMICOLON}}, making the marks identical in practice.<ref>{{cite web |last=Nicolas |first=Nick |work=[[Thesaurus Linguae Graecae]]: A Digital Library of Greek Literature |publisher=University of California, Irvine |url=http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/punctuation.html |title=Greek Unicode Issues: Punctuation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118083005/http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/punctuation.html |archive-date=January 18, 2015 |date=November 20, 2014}}". 2005. Accessed 7 October 2014.</ref>
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