Editing Proper noun (section)

== Alternative marking of proper names ==

In non-alphabetic scripts, proper names are sometimes marked by other means.

In [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]], parts of a royal name were enclosed in a [[cartouche]]: an oval with a line at one end.{{sfn|Collier| Manley|2003| p=20}}

In [[Chinese script]], a [[proper name mark]] (a kind of [[Underline#Underlines in non-Latin scripts|underline]]) has sometimes been used to indicate a proper name. In the standard [[Pinyin]] system of romanization for [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] Chinese, capitalization is used to mark proper names,{{sfn|Binyong| Felley| 1990|pp=138–190}} with some complexities because of different Chinese classifications of nominal types,{{efn|The authors distinguish proper nouns, common nouns, abstract nouns, material nouns, and collective nouns.{{sfn|Po-Ching|Rimmington |2006|pp=10–13}} }} and even different notions of such broad categories as ''word'' and ''phrase''.{{sfn|Packard |2000| pp=106–109}}

[[Sanskrit]] and other languages written in the [[Devanagari]] script, along with many other languages using alphabetic or [[syllabary|syllabic]] scripts, do not distinguish upper and lower case and do not mark proper names systematically.