2038: Full Stops across Languages Jun 14, 2020

The symbols meant to punctuate the end of a sentence are fairly consistent, but there are some exceptions. The full stop as it is called is often represented with ⟨.⟩ was introduced by the Byzantine Greeks; before this, there would just be strings of words, and not necessarily even spaces. This is not the only use of that symbol, as it appears in math, after initials, and other uses, but also other cultures have developed other symbols in some way or another, including the Chinese ⟨。⟩, the Sinhalan (of Sri Lanka) ⟨෴⟩ though now they use the period, the Armenian ⟨:⟩, the Hindu ⟨।⟩, and the Amharic ⟨።⟩.

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