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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 ...
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 ...
In the cases of maté from Spanish mate (/ ˈ m ɑː t eɪ /; Spanish:), animé from Japanese anime, and latté or even lattè from Italian latte (/ ˈ l ɑː t eɪ /; Italian pronunciation: ⓘ), an accent on the final e indicates that the word is pronounced with / eɪ / ⓘ at the end, rather than the e being silent.
qu is used to accomplish the same purpose in Catalan, [11] Portuguese, [10] Spanish, [2] and French. Rarely, the use of unusual suffixed forms to create neologisms occurs. For example, the words saco and taco are both standard words but adding -es or -ez (both productive affixes in Spanish) would create spellings that seem to indicate soft c ...
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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 the c-cedilla Ç/ç , since it is the only letter in French with this diacritical mark. The cedilla key (dead letter) is still ...