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There are a few other potential reasons for this though, it can be used to show elision for unstressed vowels. This is commonly seen in Spanish and French, but can also be found in English (though we don't typically use the apostrophe to show this, it tends to come down to spoken accent and isn't really reflected in written speech here).

Another potential use for the apostrophe is for diacritic marks, such as indicating a glottal stop being used, which could also change the sound of the name.

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