Comma Below
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Note that this diacritic may be confused with cedilla ¸. The comma below derives from a small cursive z placed under the base character.[1] Some of the precomposed characters that are listed as having a cedilla in Unicode, have in practice commas. See Cedilla for those characters.
Comma Below in Unicode
| ◌̦ | Ș | ș | Ț | ț |
| U+0326 | U+0218 | U+0219 | U+021A | U+021B |
| Combining Comma Below | Latin Capital Letter S With Comma Below | Latin Small Letter S With Comma Below | Latin Capital Letter T With Comma Below | Latin Small Letter T With Comma Below |
Comma Below in Natlangs
| Usage | Language | Letters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Affrication | Moldovan (obsolete orthography), Romanian (obsolete orthography) | D̦d̦ /z, dz, ds/, Țț /t͡s/ | D̦d̦ was abandoned in 1904.[2] Note that there is no precomposed form of it. |
| Moldovan (current orthography), Romanian (current orthography) | Țț /t͡s/ | ||
| Postalveolar consonant | Albanian (Istanbul alphabet) | X̦x̦ /dʒ/ | Note that X̦x̦ is not a precomposed letter. Unaccented Xx stood for /dz/. It is unclear if this diacritic is supposed to be a comma or a cedilla, which is found on other Albanian letters (see Cedilla). The Istanbul alphabet is no longer in use.[3] |
| Moldovan, Romanian | Șș /ʃ/ |
See Also
References
- ↑ Comma below, Diacritical usage at Wikipedia.
- ↑ D-comma at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Albanian alphabet, Congress of Manastir at Wikipedia.
