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A cedilla (/ s ɪ ˈ d ɪ l ə / sih-DIH-lə; from Spanish cedilla, "small ceda", i.e. small "z"), or cedille (from French cédille, pronounced), is a hook or tail (¸) added under certain letters (as a diacritical mark) to indicate that their pronunciation is modified.
Ç or ç (C-cedilla) is a Latin script letter used in the Albanian, Azerbaijani, Manx, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Kurdish, Kazakh, and Romance alphabets. Romance languages that use this letter include Catalan , French , Portuguese , and Occitan , as a variant of the letter C with a cedilla .
The symbol ç is the letter c with a cedilla ( ̧), as used to spell French and Portuguese words such as façade and ação. However, the sound represented by the symbol ç in French and Portuguese orthography is not a voiceless palatal fricative; the cedilla, instead, changes the usual /k/ , the voiceless velar plosive , when c is employed ...
French uses four diacritics, appearing on vowels (circumflex, acute, grave, diaeresis) and the cedilla appearing in ç . Italian uses two diacritics, appearing on vowels (acute, grave) Leonese: could use ñ or nn . Portuguese uses a tilde with the vowels a and o and a cedilla with c.
The cedilla is only used before a, o, u , e.g. ça /sa/. A cedilla is not used before e, i, y , since they already mark the c as /s/, e.g. ce, ci, cycle. A tilde ( ̃ ) above n is occasionally used in French for words and names of Spanish origin that have been incorporated into the language (e.g., El Niño, piñata). Like the other diacritics ...
The cedilla-versions of the characters do not exist in the Romanian language (they came to be used due to a historic bug). [35] The UCS now says that encoding this was a mistake because it messed up Romanian data and the letters with cedilla and the letters with comma are the same letter with a different style. [36]
For example, the dead key for the cedilla (which can apply to different letters, such as ț in Romanian) on the old Canadian French IBM ID-058 keyboards was replaced in the primary group with a key that directly types C-cedilla Ç/ç , since it is the only letter in French with this diacritical mark. The cedilla key (dead key) is still present ...
C with cedilla and caron (Ç̌ ç̌) is an additional letter used in transliteration of the Laz, [1] Georgian, [2] Avar [3] and Udi [1] languages in certain KNAB romanisations. It is composed of a C with a caron and a cedilla .