page_title: Inverted question and exclamation marks
hierarchical_section_title: Inverted question and exclamation marks
caption_attribution_description: ¿Por qué no te callas?
context_page_description: Inverted question mark, ¿, and inverted exclamation mark, ¡, are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences, respectively, in written Spanish and sometimes also in languages which have cultural ties with the Spanish, such as the Galician, Asturian and Waray languages. They are useful in Spanish since the syntax of the language means that questions and exclamations can have the same wording as regular statements.
  They can also be combined in several ways to express the combination of a question and surprise or disbelief. The initial marks are normally mirrored at the end of the sentence or clause by the 'ordinary' question mark, ?, or exclamation mark, !, used in most other languages. Unlike the ending marks, which are printed along the baseline of a sentence, the inverted marks descend below the line.
  Inverted marks were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española in 1754, and adopted gradually over the next century.
  On computers, inverted marks are supported by various standards, including ISO-8859-1, Unicode, and HTML.
context_section_description: Inverted question mark, ¿, and inverted exclamation mark, ¡, are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences (or clauses), respectively, in written Spanish (both in Spain and Latin America) and sometimes also in languages which have cultural ties with the Spanish, such as the Galician, Asturian and Waray languages. They are useful in Spanish since the syntax of the language means that questions and exclamations can have the same wording as regular statements.
  They can also be combined in several ways to express the combination of a question and surprise or disbelief. The initial marks are normally mirrored at the end of the sentence or clause by the 'ordinary' question mark, ?, or exclamation mark, !, used in most other languages. Unlike the ending marks, which are printed along the baseline of a sentence, the inverted marks (¿ and ¡) descend below the line.
  Inverted marks were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy) in 1754, and adopted gradually over the next century.
  On computers, inverted marks are supported by various standards, including ISO-8859-1, Unicode, and HTML. They can be entered directly on keyboards designed for Spanish-speaking countries, or via alternative methods on other keyboards.
caption: The iconic phrase ¿Por qué no te callas? ("Why don't you shut up?"), said by Spanish King Emeritus Juan Carlos I to former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez (2007).
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