Ancient guides or descriptions of punctuation

1. What is the oldest punctuation?
2. What is the history of punctuation?
3. What are the punctuation marks in ancient Greek?
4. Did ancient Latin use punctuation?

What is the oldest punctuation?

The oldest known document using punctuation is the Mesha Stele (9th century BC). This employs points between the words and horizontal strokes between the sense section as punctuation.

What is the history of punctuation?

The word is derived from the Latin punctus, “point.” From the 15th century to the early 18th the subject was known in English as pointing; and the term punctuation, first recorded in the middle of the 16th century, was reserved for the insertion of vowel points (marks placed near consonants to indicate preceding or ...

What are the punctuation marks in ancient Greek?

Punctuation. Ancient Greek is generally punctuated in texts for the reader's convenience. Full stops and commas are used in roughly the same way as English. However, there is no exclamation mark, and the Greek question mark is used—it looks like a semicolon ( ; ).

Did ancient Latin use punctuation?

It was a common way of writing for texts in Ancient Greek and Classical Latin. Spoken Greek and Latin did use punctuation to tell words apart.