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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 .
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.
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.
On some keyboards, the c-cedilla key (Ç) is located one or two lines above, rather than on the right of, the acute accent key (´). In some cases it is placed on the right of the plus sign key (+), [38] [39] while in other keyboards it is situated on the right of the inverted exclamation mark key (¡). [40] [better source needed] [41]
C with cedilla and acute: Abaza, Abkhaz, and Adyghe transliteration, Kurdish Ç̆ ç̆: C with cedilla and breve: ISO 9 Ç̇ ç̇: C with cedilla and dot above: Chechen Ç̌ ç̌: C with cedilla and caron: Abaza, Abkhaz, and Adyghe transliteration ꞔ Small C with palatal hook: Lithuanian dialectology [38] [39] Ꞔ Capital C with palatal hook
5.3 Ce trencada (c-cedilla) 6 Capitalization. 7 Punctuation. Toggle Punctuation subsection. ... Contrary to the restrictions of the acute and grave accent, ...
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Typewritten text in Portuguese; note the acute accent, tilde, and circumflex accent.. Portuguese orthography is based on the Latin alphabet and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla to denote stress, vowel height, nasalization, and other sound changes.