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Cedilla
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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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It is catalogued under topics including Cyrillic-script diacritics, History of the French language and Latin-script diacritics.
Its subject is documented across 45 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Diacritic.mark
- ¸
- Diacritic.name
- Cedilla
- Diacritic.unicode
- U+0327 (combining diacritic)U+00B8 (spacing symbol, ISO/IEC 8859)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- diacritic
- Image
- Unicode 0x0327.svg
- Has use
- phonetic transcription
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- Commons category
- Cedilla
- Unicode code point
- 0327
- Unicode block
- Combining Diacritical Marks
- Unicode character name
- COMBINING CEDILLA
- HTML entity
- ̧
- writing system
- Cyrillic script
- different from
- ◌̦
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