A cedilla is a hook (¸) added under certain consonant letters as a A diacritic mark or accent mark is an additional mark added to a basic letter. ...diacritic mark to modify their pronunciation. The tail is the bottom half of a miniature Cursive is a style of handwriting in which all the letters in a word are connected, making a word one single (complicated) stroke. ...cursive z or Ezh (capital , lowercase ) is a character in the IPA: . Also called the Tailed Z, it is a voiced postalveolar fricative. ...Ezh: Ʒ/ʒ (). The name "cedilla" is the A diminutive ia a formation of a word used to convey a sense of smaller size and/or affection (see nickname). ...diminutive of the old Spanish name for the letter Z, ceda. An obsolete spelling of "cedilla" is "cerilla" because the letters d and r were interchangeable in 16th_century This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ...Spanish.

The most frequent character with cedilla is the ç (c with cedilla). This letter was used for the sound of the affricate [ts] in old Spanish. Spanish has not used it since an Natural languages often develop cumbersome manners of spelling words. ...orthographic reform in the (17th century _ 18th century _ 19th century _ more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...18th century.

C_cedilla was adopted for writing other languages, like French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ...French, Portuguese (português) is a Romance language predominantly spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and East Timor. ...Portuguese, Catalan (Català, Valencià) is a Romance language spoken by as many as approximately 12 million people in portions of Spain, France, Andorra and Italy, although the majority of Catalan speakers are in Spain. ...Catalan, unofficial Basque is the language spoken by the Basque people, who live in northern Spain and the adjoining area of southwestern France. ...Basque, Occitan, or langue doc is a Romance language characterized by its richness, variability, and by the intelligibility of its dialects. ...Occitan, and some Friulian (friulano in Italian, Furlan in Friulian) is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaetian languages family, spoken in the north_east of Italy (Friuli_Venezia Giulia province) by about 600,000 people. ...Friulian dialects, where it represents /s/ where "c" would normally represent /k/ (for example, while ca is normally pronouced as /ka/, ça is pronouced as /sa/); or Turkish (Türkçe or Türk dili) is a Turkic language, spoken natively by over 100 million speakers in Turkey, Cyprus, and worldwide. ...Turkish, Albanian or Gjuha shqipe is a language spoken by more then six million inhabitants of the western Balkan peninsula (Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Greece) in the south_eastern Europe (Albanians) and by a small number of people in Calabria, southern Albania, Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Turkey...Albanian, Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ...Azerbaijani, The Tatar language (Tatar tele, Tatarça) is an Turkic language belonging to the Altaic branch of the Ural_Altaic family of languages. ...Tatar, Turkmen (Туркмен, ISO 639_1: tk, ISO 639_2: tuk) is the name of the national language of Turkmenistan. ...Turkmen, Geographic distribution The Kurdish languages (also called dialects of Kurdish) are spoken in the region loosely called Kurdistan including Kurdish populations in parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. ...Kurdish (at least the Mahabad dialect), and some Friulian (friulano in Italian, Furlan in Friulian) is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaetian languages family, spoken in the north_east of Italy (Friuli_Venezia Giulia province) by about 600,000 people. ...Friulian dialects, where it is used for the sound of the affricate [tS] (the same of English in church). It is also used in a A romanization or latinization is a system for representing a word or language with the Roman (Latin) alphabet, where the original word or language used a different writing system. ...Romanization of Arabic is a Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ...Arabic.

And the s_cedilla, ş, represents /S/ (as in show) in Turkish, Azerbaijan, Tatar, Turkmen, and Kurdish. It is also used in some Romanizations of Arabic, Persian (فارسی), also known as Farsi (local name), Parsi (older local name, but still used by some speakers), Tajik (a Central Asian dialect) or Dari (an Afghan dialect), is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. ...Persian, and Pashto (پښتو; also known as Afghan, Pushto, Pashto, Pashtoe, Pashtu, and Pukhto) is the language spoken by the ethnic Afghan otherwise known as the Pashtun people who inhabit Afghanistan and the Western provinces of Pakistan. ...Pashto, for the letter ar-r.

In the This article is about the alphabet officially used in linguistics. ...International Phonetic Alphabet, ç represents the The voiceless palatal fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ...voiceless palatal fricative.

In the The current Turkish alphabet used for the Turkish language replaced the earlier arabic alphabet and was created at the initative of Kemal Atatürk by borrowing different Latin characters in 1928. ...Turkish alphabet both Ç and Ş ş (S_cedilla) is a letter used in Turkish, Azeri, Tatar, Kurdish and Turkmenian languages. ...Ş are considered separate letters, not variants of C and S.

A few words are sometimes spelled in English with a ç, almost all of them borrowings from French, for example West façade of the Notre_Dame de Strasbourg Cathedral A facade (or façade) is the exterior of a building – especially the front, but also sometimes the sides and rear. ...façade, soupçon and garçon.

The Romanian (limba română ) is an Eastern Romance language, spoken by about 28 million people, most of them in Romania, Moldova (where it is the official language) and nearby countries. ...Romanian Ș (ș) seemingly resembles the Turkish s cedilla, but it is actually a A comma ( , ) is a punctuation mark. ...comma (Virgula). While it is common in online contexts to use Ş/ş and Ţ/ţ in writing Romanian, that is only because they look almost right and are much more widely supported in character sets. The orthographically correct characters are Ș/ș and Ț/ț (may not appear on your browser).

Romanian comma below

Unicode distinguishes COMBINING COMMA BELOW from COMBINING CEDILLA, and encodes S WITH CEDILLA for use in Turkic languages and S WITH COMMA BELOW and T WITH COMMA BELOW for use in Romanian. (These characters were added to Unicode 3.0 at the request of the Romanian national standardization body.) The letter T WITH CEDILLA is sometimes used in transliteration of Arabic (as in The Times Atlas of the World).

Romanian authorities consider Ş/ş and Ţ/ţ to be "wrong"; though if text is marked as being in the Romanian language, glyphs appropriate for Romanian should be chosen. The Romanian position is that Romanian data should be migrated from CEDILLA to COMMA BELOW.

See also

• Ogonek (Polish for “little tail”) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in Polish, Lithuanian, Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua and Tutchone. ...ogonek