◌̧
Also known as U+0327, ̧, COMBINING CEDILLA, cedilla
A cedilla ( ; from Spanish '', "small ceda''", i.e. small "z"), or cedille (from French , ), is a hook or tail () added under certain letters (as a diacritical mark) to indicate that their pronunciation is modified. In Catalan (where it is called ), French, and Portuguese (where it is called a ) it is used only under the letter (to form ), and the entire letter is called, respectively, (i.e. "broken C"), , and (or , colloquially). It is used to mark vowel nasalization in many languages of Sub-Saharan Africa, including Vute from Cameroon.
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- Diacritic.mark
- ¸
- Diacritic.name
- Cedilla
- Diacritic.unicode
- U+0327 (combining diacritic)U+00B8 (spacing symbol, ISO/IEC 8859)
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- Unicode 0x0327.svg
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30 sectionsContents
- History
- In manuscripts
- ''C with cedilla''
- Paleographic ''e'' cedilla (''e caudata'')
- Early printing
- After the Renaissance
- T-cedilla in French
- ''Açhille'', ''çhien'', ''çheval'': the proposals of Nicolas Beauzée
- Chronology of the appearance of the cedilla
- Etymology
- Current usage
- Romance languages
- Romanian
- Turkic languages
- Azerbaijani
- Tatar
- Albanian
- Latvian
- Other alphabets
- Kurdish
- Marshallese
- Cameroonian languages
- Kinande
- Indigenous languages of the Americas
- Languages with ogoneks
- Phonetic transcription
- ASCII and ISO 646 transcription
- Notes and references
- Bibliography
- See also
A cedilla ( ; from Spanish '', "small ceda", i.e. small "z"), or cedille (from French , ), is a hook or tail () added under certain letters (as a diacritical mark) to indicate that their pronunciation is modified. In Catalan (where it is called ), French, and Portuguese (where it is called a ) it is used only under the letter (to form ), and the entire letter is called, respectively, (i.e. "broken C"), , and (or , colloquially). It is used to mark vowel nasalization in many languages of Sub-Saharan Africa, including Vute from Cameroon.
This diacritic is not to be confused with the ogonek (◌̨), which resembles the cedilla but mirrored. It looks also very similar to the diacritical comma, which is used in the Romanian and Latvian alphabet, and which is misnamed "cedilla" in the Unicode standard.