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Usage

This template outputs the ʻOkina character (ʻ, ʻ) used to mark the phonetic glottal stop used in Polynesian languages such as Hawaiian and Samoan.

This character (but not this template) also has other uses:

Use {{'eta}} for the analogous mark in Tahitian (which is different visually but not in Unicode)
Use {{fakau'a}} for the analogous mark in Tongan (which is different visually but not in Unicode)
Aspiration of Armenian
For the apostrophe-like character in Wade–Giles transcription of Chinese, use {{wg-apos}}
The L2/00-220 transliteration and some romanizations of the Semitic letter ayin. It does not accept any parameters.
For the unambiguous ayin, use {{ayin}}.

Letters resembling apostrophes


Template	Redirects	Output	Unicode	Usage	Comment	HTML	Hexadecimal
`{{okina}}`	~~`{{ayn}}`~~^[a]	ʻ	U+02BB ʻ MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA	Polynesian languages as letter ʻOkina ALA-LC romanization and less commonly in Latin transliteration of Arabic ʿayn^[b]		`ʻ`	`ʻ`
`{{ayin}}`		ʽ	U+02BD ʽ MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED COMMA	Hans Wehr transliteration and the Survey of Egypt System (SES) romanization of Arabic	Preferred over `{{Left half ring}}` which is used for technical transliterations.	`&#x02BD`
`{{hamza}}`		ʼ	U+02BC ʼ MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE	Transliteration of hamza or glottal stop in Semitic languages, amongst various glottal sounds.	Preferred over `{{Right half ring}}` which is used for technical transliterations.	`&#x02BC`
`{{saltillo}}`		ꞌ	U+A78C ꞌ LATIN SMALL LETTER SALTILLOU+A78B Ꞌ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SALTILLO	Mexican linguistics

Notes

^ ʿayn is not the same as ʻOkina, however the same Unicode character produced by {{okina}} is used in L2/00-220 transliteration and some romanizations, such as ALA-LC romanization, of the Semitic letter ayin, also known as ayn.
^ L2/00-220 transliteration and some romanizations of Arabic ʿayn.

[1] ʿayn is not the same as ʻOkina, however the same Unicode character produced by {{okina}} is used in L2/00-220 transliteration and some romanizations, such as ALA-LC romanization, of the Semitic letter ayin, also known as ayn.

[2] L2/00-220 transliteration and some romanizations of Arabic ʿayn.

[a]

[b]