Question mark
Videos
The question mark? is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.
An 11th century punctus interrogativus; in the third line, before "tamen". (Burgerbibliothek Bern, Cod. 162, f. 15r.)
Semicolon
Videos
The semicolon; is a symbol commonly used as orthographic punctuation. In the English language, a semicolon is most commonly used to link two independent clauses that are closely related in thought, su
Question mark
…the same time as the Latin one, in the 8th century. 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 U+037E ; GREEK QUESTION MARK, but the similarity is so great that the code point is normalised to U+003B…
De Ætna. 1496 print by Aldine Press.