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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 definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a ... C with cedilla: Albanian, Azerbaijani ...
Origin of the cedilla from the Visigothic z A conventional "ç" and 'modernist' cedilla "c̦" (right). (Helvetica and Akzidenz-Grotesk Book) The tail originated in Spain as the bottom half of a miniature cursive z. The word cedilla is the diminutive of the Old Spanish name for this letter, ceda (zeta). [1]
When the tail loops over itself, it's called curly: ʝ curly-tail j, ɕ curly-tail c. There are also a few unique modifications: ɬ belted l , ɞ closed reversed epsilon (there was once also a ɷ closed omega ), ɰ right-leg turned m , ɺ turned long-leg r (there was once also a long-leg r ), ǁ double pipe , and the obsolete ʗ stretched c .
This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters . For other languages and symbol sets (especially in mathematics and science), see below .
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.
The term Latin alphabet may refer to either the alphabet used to write Latin (as described in this article) or other alphabets based on the Latin script, which is the basic set of letters common to the various alphabets descended from the classical Latin alphabet, such as the English alphabet.
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 .