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{{short description|Sideways double chevron (« and ») used as a quotation mark in some languages}}
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'''Guillemets''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɡ|ɪ|l|əm|ɛ|t}},<ref>{{Cite American Heritage Dictionary|guillemet|access-date=7 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/guillemet|title=Guillemet|work=[[Collins English Dictionary]]|publisher=[[HarperCollins]]|access-date=7 June 2019}}</ref> <small>also</small> {{IPAc-en|UK|ˈ|ɡ|iː|m|eɪ}},<ref>{{Cite
== Terminology ==
Guillemets may also be called '''angle''', '''Latin''', '''Castilian''', '''Spanish''', or '''French quotes / quotation marks'''.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
''Guillemet'' is a [[diminutive]] of the French name ''{{lang|fr|Guillaume}}'', apparently after the French [[printing|printer]] and [[punchcutter]] [[Guillaume Le Bé]] (1525–1598),{{refn|name="Microsoft-etym"|{{cite web |url=http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/fdsspec/punc.htm |title=Character design standards, Latin 1: Punctuation Design Standards. § ''Pointing quotation marks – Guillemets'' |website=Microsoft Typography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103011454/http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/fdsspec/punc.htm |archive-date=2012-11-03 |access-date=2020-06-12 }}}} though he did not invent the symbols: they first appear in a 1527 book printed by [[Jodocus Badius|Josse Bade]].<ref>[http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/guillemet Trésor de la langue française informatisé – guillemet]</ref> Some languages derive their word for guillemets analogously: {{
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== Shape ==
Guillemets are smaller than [[less-than sign|less-than]] and [[greater-than sign]]s, which in turn are smaller than [[angle bracket]]s.
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Guillemets are used pointing outwards ('''«'''like this'''»''') to indicate speech in these languages and regions:
* [[Albanian language|Albanian]]
* [[
* [[Armenian language|Armenian]]
* [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]] (
* [[Belarusian language|Belarusian]]
* [[Breton language|Breton]]
* [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] (rarely used; „...“ is official)
* [[Catalan language|Catalan]]
* [[Chinese language|Chinese]] (
* [[Esperanto]] (usage varies)
* [[Estonian language|Estonian]] (marked usage; „...“ prevails)
* [[
* [[French language|French]] (spaced out by [[thin space]]s '''«''' like this '''»''', except no spaces in Switzerland)
* [[Galician language|Galician]]
* [[Greek language|Greek]]
* [[Italian language|Italian]]
* [[Khmer language|Khmer]]
* [[North–South differences in the Korean language|Northern]] [[Korean language|Korean]] (in Southern Korean, '''
* [[Kurdish
* [[Latvian language|Latvian]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.uzdevumi.lv/p/latviesu-valoda/12-klase/valodas-funkcionalie-stili-11433/lietiskais-stils-11551/re-25a094b0-0a93-41f8-b8df-70f7f71584b0 | title=Pieturzīmes lietišķajos rakstos. Pēdiņas. — teorija. Latviešu valoda, 12. Klase. }}</ref> (''stūrainās pēdiņas'')
* [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]]
* [[Persian language|Persian]]
* [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] (used mostly in [[European Portuguese]], due to its presence in [[QWERTY#Portugal|typical computer keyboards]]; considered obsolete in [[Brazilian Portuguese]])
* [[Romanian language|Romanian]]; only to indicate a quotation within a quotation
* [[Russian language|Russian]], and [[languages of the Soviet Union|some languages]] of the [[Post-Soviet states|former Soviet Union]] using [[Cyrillic script]] („...“ is also used for nested quotes and in hand-written text.)
* [[Spanish language|Spanish]] (uncommon in daily usage, but commonly used in publishing)
* [[Languages of Switzerland|Swiss languages]]
* [[Turkish language|Turkish]] (dated usage; almost entirely replaced with “...” by late 20th century)
* [[Uyghur language|Uyghur]]
* [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]
* [[Uzbek language|Uzbek]] (mostly in the [[Uzbek alphabet|Cyrillic script]])
*[[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]] (previously, now
Guillemets are used pointing inwards ('''»'''like this'''«''') to indicate speech in these languages:
* [[Croatian language|Croatian]] (preferred by typographers,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mesaroš |first=Franjo |url=https://archive.org/embed/franjo-mesaros-tipografski-priruc-nik |title=Tipografski priručnik |year=1985 |p=179}}</ref> alternate pair „...“ is in common use)
* [[Czech language|Czech]] (
* [[Danish language|Danish]] (
* [[Esperanto]] (very uncommon)
* [[German language|German]] (
* [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] (only used „inside a section »as a secondary quote« marked by the usual quotes” like this)
* [[Polish
* [[Serbian language|Serbian]] (marked usage; „...“ prevails)
* [[Slovak language|Slovak]] (
* [[Slovene language|Slovene]] („...“ and
* [[Swedish language|Swedish]] (this style, and »...» are
Guillemets are used pointing right ('''»'''like this'''»''') to indicate speech in these languages:
* [[Finnish language|Finnish]] (”...” is the common and correct form)
* [[Swedish language|Swedish]] (this style, and
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=== Mail merge ===
[[Microsoft Word]] uses guillemets when creating [[mail merge]]s. Microsoft use these punctuation marks to denote a mail merge "field", such as {{char|«Title»}}, {{char|«AddressBlock»}} or {{char|«GreetingLine»}}.
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=== Keyboard entry ===
The double guillemets are standard keys on
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* A related pair of symbols, '[[Bracket#Angle brackets|angle bracket]]s' (a single chevron), {{code|⟨}} and {{code|⟩}}, is used for another purpose, in mathematics and computing.
* [[Chevron (insignia)|Chevron]]
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* [[Quotation mark]]
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