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How to pronounce cedilla in English?

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Type of diacritic, diacritical mark

Examples of cedilla

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The ogonek is functionally equivalent to the cedilla and comma diacritics.
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No masculine, feminine, neuter, acute, grave or cedilla for your free-spirited Anglophone.
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A similar letter, the t-comma, does exist in Romanian, but it has a comma accent, not a cedilla one.
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Romanian writings, including books created to teach children to write, treat the comma and cedilla as a variation in font.
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An obsolete spelling of cedilla is cerilla.
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Also, some accents used with the Latin alphabet like the Romaniancomma are not included, using cedilla instead.
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In older Spanish, it was called zeda or ceda, which are the origin of the word cedilla, which is also used in English.
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A second function of this script is to allow the manual input of diacritics like the upper line, below dot or cedilla.
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Although their Adobeglyph names are commas, their names in the Unicode Standard are g, k, l, n, and r with a cedilla.
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More examples
  • A diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s
  • A cedilla (/su1D7Bu02C8du026Alu0259/ si-DIL-u0259; from Spanish), also known as cedilha (from Portuguese) or cu00E9dille (from French), is a hook or tail ( u00B8 ) added under certain letters as a diacritical mark to modify their pronunciation. In Catalan, French, and Portuguese, it is used only under the c, and the entire letter is called respectively c trencada (i.e...