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The-Comma.com - Diacritic
As a diacritic mark, comma is used in Romanian under s:
Ş (ş), and under t: Ţ (ţ). A cedilla is occasionally used
instead (notably in the Unicode glyph names), but this is technically incorrect.
A diacritical mark or diacritic, sometimes called an accent mark, is a mark
added to a letter to alter a word's pronunciation (ie. vowel marks) or to distinguish between
similar words. The word derives from the Greek word διακριτικός (diakratikos, distinguishing).
Note that diacritic is a noun and diacritical is the corresponding adjective.
A diacritical mark can appear above or below the letter to which it is added, or in some other
position; however, note that not all such marks are diacritical. For example, in English, the title
(dot) on the letters i and j is not a diacritical mark, but rather part of the
letter itself. Further, a mark may be diacritical in one language, but not in another; for
example, in Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish, u and ü are considered the same
letter, while in German, Estonian, Hungarian, Turkish and Azeri they are considered to be
separate letters.
The main usage of a diacritic is to change the phonetic meaning of the letter, but the term is also
used in a more general sense of changing the meaning of the letter or even the whole word.
Comparatively, some consider the diacritics on the Latvian consonants g, k, l,
n, and formerly r to be cedillas. However from the typographical point of view they
are commas. While their Adobe glyph names are commas, they name in the Unicode Standard is g,
k, l, n, and r with cedilla. They were introduced to the Unicode standard
before 1992 and their name cannot be altered.
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