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Ç or ç (C-cedilla) is a Latin script letter used in the Albanian, Azerbaijani, Manx, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Kurdish, Kazakh, and Romance alphabets. Romance languages that use this letter include Catalan, French, Portuguese, and Occitan, as a variant of the letter C with a cedilla.
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ç , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is C. It is the non-sibilant equivalent of the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative. The symbol ç is the letter c with a cedilla ( ̧), as used to spell French and Portuguese words such as façade and ação.
A cedilla (/ s ɪ ˈ d ɪ l ə / sih-DIH-lə; from Spanish cedilla, "small ceda", i.e. small "z"), or cedille (from French cédille, pronounced), is a hook or tail (¸) added under certain letters (as a diacritical mark) to indicate that their pronunciation is modified.
C with cedilla and caron (Ç̌ ç̌) is an additional letter used in transliteration of the Laz, [1] Georgian, [2] Avar [3] and Udi [1] languages in certain KNAB romanisations. It is composed of a C with a caron and a cedilla .
To generate an accented character with one of the diacritics ́, ̀, ̂, ̈ and ̃, press the relevant accent key then the character to be accented. Characters with diacritics can be typed with the following combinations: ' + vowel → vowel with acute accent, e.g., '+e → é ` + vowel → vowel with grave accent, e.g., `+e → è
The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode .
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Rather than using a c with a cedilla, ç , Panzavecchia used a c with ogonek c̨ . A Short Grammar of the Maltese Language used ch for /t͡ʃ/ , in English fashion. However, the first appearance of the letter ċ for its current sound was in 1822 in the first ever Maltese written gospel by Martin Cannolo instituting the modern ċ .