Editing Cedilla (section)

==T==
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[[Gagauz language|Gagauz]] uses Ţ (T with cedilla), one of the few languages to do so, and Ş (S with cedilla). Besides being present in some Gagauz orthographies, T with Cedilla also exists in the [[General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages]], in the [[Kabyle language|Kabyle]] language, in the [[Manjak language|Manjak]] and [[Mankanya language|Mankanya]] languages, and possibly elsewhere.

In 1868, Ambroise Firmin-Didot suggested in his book ''{{lang|fr|Observations sur l'orthographe, ou ortografie, française}}'' (Observations on French Spelling) that French phonetics could be better regularized by adding a cedilla beneath the letter "t" in some words. For example, the suffix ''{{lang|fr|-tion}}'' is usually not pronounced as {{IPA|/tjɔ̃/}} but as {{IPA|/sjɔ̃/}}. It has to be distinctly learned that in words such as ''{{lang|fr|diplomatie}}'' (but not ''{{lang|fr|diplomatique}}''), it is pronounced {{IPA|/s/}}. A similar effect occurs with other prefixes or within words. Firmin-Didot surmised that a new character could be added to French orthography. A letter with the same description, [[Ţ|T-cedilla]] (majuscule: Ţ, minuscule: ţ), is used in [[Gagauz language|Gagauz]]. A similar letter, the [[T-comma]] (majuscule: Ț, minuscule: ț), exists in Romanian, but it has a comma accent, not a cedilla.