cedilla

Noun

Meaning

A mark placed under the letter c [thus, c], to show that it is to be sounded like s, as in facade.

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In the Vatican copy the e of Dagome might have an s adscriptum (similar to cedilla ), though just the Vatican copyist read iudex literally, relating it to Sardinia and its four "judges". Source: Internet

Cedilla and comma The ogonek is functionally equivalent to the cedilla and comma diacritics. Source: Internet

Essentially, the Brazilian keyboard contains dead keys for five variants of diacritics in use in the language; the letter Ç, the only application of the cedilla in Portuguese, has its own key. Source: Internet

If two of these three are used within the same orthography their respective use is restricted to certain classes of letters, i.e. usually the ogonek is used with vowels whereas the cedilla is applied to consonants. Source: Internet

In general, a diacritic is a glyph, even if (like a cedilla in French, the ogonek in several languages or the stroke on a Polish " Ł ") it is contiguous with the rest of the character. Source: Internet

The comma and the cedilla are both derivative of a small cursive z (ʒ) placed below the letter. Source: Internet

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