To ride on the apostrophe wave: in Ukrainian (and older Russian orthography), apostrophe separates syllabes where it would otherwise cause incorrect palatalization of previous consonant, in compound words or in prefixes (об'єктивне, to show that б is not palatalized). So it has the same function as contemporary Russian hard sign. Of course, it does not affect the TR29, since it concerns only cyrillic, but e.g. Russian transliteration into latin alphabet uses apostrophe for soft sign (ь) and so is always part of a word. And, who knows what are the rules for other languages written in cyrillic...
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