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'''T-comma''' (majuscule: '''Ț''', minuscule: '''ț''') is a letter which is part of the [[Romanian alphabet]], used to represent the [[Romanian language]] sound {{IPA|/t͡s/}}, the [[voiceless alveolar affricate]] (like the letter C in Slavic languages)''. It is written as the letter [[T]] with a small [[Comma (punctuation)|comma]] below and it has both the lower-case (U+021B) and the upper-case variants (U+021A).
The letter was proposed in the ''Buda Lexicon'', a book published in 1825, which included two texts by [[Petru Maior]], {{lang|ro|Orthographia romana sive Latino-valachica una cum clavi}} and {{lang|ro|Dialogu pentru inceputul linbei române}}, introducing ș for {{IPA|/ʃ/}} and ț for {{IPA|/t͡s/}}.<ref>Marinella Lörinczi Angioni, "Coscienza nazionale romanza e ortografia: il romeno tra alfabeto cirillico e alfabeto latino ", ''La Ricerca Folklorica'', No. 5, La scrittura: funzioni e ideologie. (Apr., 1982), pp. 75–85.</ref>
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