Punctuation in French
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Punctuation in French arises from punctuation structures developed during the Middle Ages. The parent languages of French, Latin and Proto-Germanic, did not have punctuation. Punctuation was invented in French alongside most other languages descended from Latin and Germanic and is therefore similar to that in many other western European languages. However, there are some differences:
The rules for spaces around punctuation in the French language, differ from those in English. For example, French text adds a quarter-em space before a semi-colon, question mark or exclamation mark, and between guillemets and the quoted text. Also, commas are not included within the quoted text but follow the guillemet.[1]
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- ^ HTML authoring in French (for Microsoft Windows users)
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