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Cedilla
Cedilla meaning
In the spelling of Catalan, French, Portuguese and some other languages, a mark ⟨¸⟩ sometimes placed under the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced /s/ rather than /k/, as in Catalan força, French menaçant, and Portuguese almoço, and also used in various other languages to change the sounds of other letters.
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Cedilla and comma The ogonek is functionally equivalent to the cedilla and comma diacritics.
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.
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.
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.
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".
Spanish keyboards are usually labelled in Spanish instead of English, its abbreviations being: The c-cedilla key (Ç), instead of on the right of the acute accent key (´), is located alternatively on some keyboards one or two lines above.
The comma and the cedilla are both derivative of a small cursive z (ʒ) placed below the letter.
The older cedilla-version layout is still included albeit as the 'Legacy' layout.