Cedilla
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A cedilla, or cedille, is a hook or tail added under certain letters to indicate that their pronunciation is modified. In Catalan, French, and Portuguese it is used only under the letter ⟨c⟩, and the
A printing workshop in the 15th century.
Latvian orthography
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The modern Latvian orthography is based on Latin script adapted to phonetic principles, following the pronunciation of the language. The standard alphabet consists of 33 letters – 22 unmodified Latin
Cedilla
…with the ogonek (◌̨), which resembles the cedilla but mirrored. It looks also very similar to the diacritical comma, which is used in the Romanian and Latvian alphabet, and which is misnamed "cedilla" in the Unicode standard. There is substantial overlap between the cedilla and a diacritical comma. The cedilla is…
Newspaper advertisement, ca. late 19th or early 20th c., showing the use of German script and German-influenced orthography
19th-century Latvian alphabet (upper)
The word "gentle" in Latvian in the Debeika style.