Editing Colon (punctuation) (section)

==Usage in other languages==

===Suffix separator===
In [[Finnish language|Finnish]] and [[Swedish language|Swedish]], the colon can appear inside words in a manner similar to the [[apostrophe]] in the English [[possessive case]], connecting a grammatical [[suffix]] to an [[abbreviation]] or [[initialism]], a special symbol, or a [[Numerical digit|digit]] (e.g., Finnish ''USA:n'' and Swedish ''USA:s'' for the [[genitive case]] of "USA", Finnish ''%:ssa'' for the [[inessive case]] of "%", or Finnish ''20:een'' for the [[illative case]] of "20").

===Abbreviation mark===
Written Swedish uses colons in [[contraction (grammar)|contractions]], such as ''S:t'' for ''Sankt'' (Swedish for "Saint") – for example in the name of the [[Stockholm metro]] station ''[[Sankt Eriksplan metro station|S:t Eriksplan]]'', and ''k:a'' for ''kyrka'' ("church") – for instance [[Svenska kyrkan|Svenska k:a]] (Svenska kyrkan), the Evangelical Lutheran national Church of Sweden. This can even occur in people's names, for example [[Antonia Ax:son Johnson]] (''[[Ax:son Johnson family|Ax:son]]'' for ''Axelson''). [[Early Modern English]] texts also used colons to mark abbreviations.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ioppolo |first1=Grace |year=2006 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wbZHFFvA9eUC&pg=PA73 |page=73 |publisher=Psychology Press |title=Dramatists and their manuscripts in the age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood |isbn=9780203449424}}</ref><ref>Compare: {{cite book |editor1-last=Mueller |editor1-first=Janel |editor2-last=Scodel |editor2-first=Joshua |year=2009 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DO5vQXpdJHIC&pg=PA460 |page=460 |title=Elizabeth I: translations, 1544-1589 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |quote=In the medieval and early modern eras, [...] the colon and raised dot [...] signal a contracted word [...]. |isbn=9780226201337}}</ref>

===Word separator===
[[File:Ethiopic genesis (ch. 29, v. 11-16), 15th century (The S.S. Teacher's Edition-The Holy Bible - Plate XII, 1).jpg|thumb|15th century Bible text in Ge'ez script showing colons between the words]]
In [[Ethiopia]], both [[Amharic]] and [[Ge'ez script]] used and sometimes still use a [[Geʽez script#Punctuation|colon-like mark]] as [[word separator]].

Historically, a colon-like mark was used as a word separator in [[Old Turkic script]].

===End of sentence or verse===
In [[Armenian language|Armenian]], a colon indicates the end of a sentence, similar to a Latin [[full stop]] or period.

In liturgical [[Hebrew punctuation|Hebrew]], the [[sof passuk|sof pasuq]] is used in some writings such as prayer books to signal the end of a verse.

===Score divider===
In [[German language|German]], [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], and sometimes in [[English language|English]], a colon divides the scores of opponents in sports and games. A result of [[AS Adema 149–0 SO l'Emyrne|149–0]] would be written as 149 : 0 in German and in Hebrew.