What is Cedilla?
A '''cedilla''' is a mark added to a letter of the [[alphabet]]. It is used in the orthographies of [[French language|French]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] and a few other languages, including many [[Turkic languages]].<ref name=Coll /> {{Diacritical marks|&#x00B8;}} The cedilla is most commonly used with the letters 'c' and 's', but it is rarely used with other letters. When a 'c' has a cedilla, that means it is said like an ''s'' and not like a ''k''.<ref name=Coll>{{cite dictionary|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/cedilla|access-date=April 24, 2021|title=Cedilla|publisher=Collins Dictionary}}</ref> This is called a soft c. In Turkic languages, it represents the sound of English '''''ch'''eese''. When an 's' has a cedilla, it is said like the sound of English '''''sh'''eep''. Some examples of cedillas used with letters that are not 'c' or 's' are: *In Gagauz, the letter 't' is used with a cedilla to produce the sound /ts/, like the German 'z' sound in ''zunge''. *The Latvian letters ģ, ķ, ļ, and ņ are sometimes interpreted as having cedillas, which they do in some fonts, but most of the time, they have commas. In Unicode, these letters are named as if they have cedillas. *Vute, an African language, uses cedilla to mark nasalization of its vowels, for example: ''a̧, ə̧, o̧''. == Related pages == *[[Tilde]] *[[Diacritic]] ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Writing systems]] [[Category:Alphabetic diacritics]]