Natlang Uses of Cedilla

Cedilla originates from a cursive form of Z.[1] Note that the cedilla may be confused with ogonek ˛ or comma below ◌̦. In some fonts, the cedilla together with some letters may look identical to the comma. In Romanian, the letters Șș and Țț are actually supposed to have a comma below and not a cedilla, while in most other languages Şş and Ţţ are supposed to have cedillas.

Cedilla in Unicode

Precomposed Letters with Cedilla

¸

◌̧

Ç

ç

Ḉ

ḉ

Ḑ

ḑ

Ȩ

ȩ

Ḝ

ḝ

Ģ

U+00B8

U+0327

U+00C7

U+00E7

U+1E08

U+1E09

U+1E10

U+1E11

U+0228

U+0229

U+1E1C

U+1E1D

U+0122

Cedilla

Combining Cedilla

Latin Capital Letter C With Cedilla

Latin Small Letter C With Cedilla

Latin Capital Letter C With Cedilla And Acute

Latin Small Letter C With Cedilla And Acute

Latin Capital Letter D With Cedilla

Latin Small Letter D With Cedilla

Latin Capital Letter E With Cedilla

Latin Small Letter E With Cedilla

Latin Capital Letter E With Cedilla And Breve

Latin Small Letter E With Cedilla And Breve

Latin Capital Letter G With Cedilla

ģ

Ḩ

ḩ

Ķ

ķ

Ļ

ļ

Ņ

ņ

Ŗ

ŗ

Ş

ş

U+0123

U+1E28

U+1E29

U+0136

U+0137

U+013B

U+013C

U+0145

U+0146

U+0156

U+0157

U+015E

U+015F

Latin Small Letter G With Cedilla

Latin Capital Letter H With Cedilla

Latin Small Letter H With Cedilla

Latin Capital Letter K With Cedilla

Latin Small Letter K With Cedilla

Latin Capital Letter L With Cedilla

Latin Small Letter L With Cedilla

Latin Capital Letter N With Cedilla

Latin Small Letter N With Cedilla

Latin Capital Letter R With Cedilla

Latin Small Letter R With Cedilla

Latin Capital Letter S With Cedilla

Latin Small Letter S With Cedilla

Note: The diacritic is placed on top of the letter to avoid the descender of the g.

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Note: May be confused with Latin Capital Letter S With Comma Below, Ș (U+0218).

Note: May be confused with Latin Small Letter S With Comma Below, ș (U+0219).

Ţ

ţ

U+0162

U+0163

Latin Capital Letter T With Cedilla

Latin Small Letter T With Cedilla

Note: May be confused with Latin Capital Letter T With Comma Below, Ț (U+021A).

Note: May be confused with Latin Small Letter T With Comma Below, ț (U+021B).

Natlang Examples

Uses of Cedilla

Usage	Language	Letters	Notes
Disambiguation of letter with several uses	Catalan	Çç /s/	Çç is used before Aa, Oo, Uu, or word-finally, and stands for /s/. Cc without cedilla would stand for /k/ in those positions. Intervocalic Çç is pronunced [s], while intervocalic Ss is [z].[2]
Palatal consonant	Latgalian, Latvian	Ģģ /ɟ/, Ķķ /c/, Ļļ /ʎ/, Ņņ /ɲ/
	Livonian	Ḑḑ /ɟ/, Ļļ /ʎ/, Ņņ /ɲ/, Ţţ /c/
Palatalized consonant	Livonian	Ŗŗ /rʲ/
Postalveolar consonant	Turkish	Çç /tʃ/, Şş /ʃ/	Note that the cedilla in Çç actually distinguishes voicing from Cc /dʒ/, not position.

See Also

• Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet
• Cedilla
• Natlang Uses of Comma Below
• Natlang Uses of Ogonek