A cedilla (/sɪˈdɪlə/ si-DIL-ə; from Spanish) or cedille (from French cédille, pronounced [sedij]) is a hook or tail ( ¸ ) added under certain letters as a diacritical mark to modify their pronunciation.

Is cedilla an accent?

What Is a Cedilla? The cedilla is a diacritical mark that denotes a different pronunciation of the letter it appears under. A cedilla diacritical accent mark looks like a small tail and appears most often on the upper and lower case letter C in English, as in Ç and ç.

What is Ş called?

S-cedilla (majuscule: Ş, minuscule: ş) is a letter used in some of the Turkic languages. It occurs the Azerbaijani, Gagauz, Turkish, and Turkmen alphabets. ... It is used in Brahui, Chechen, Crimean Tatar, Kurdish, and Tatar as well, when they are written in the Latin alphabet.