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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.
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
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 .
Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ; italics: Ҷ ҷ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. [1] Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч Ч ч).In the ISO 9 system of romanization, Che with descender is transliterated using the Latin letter C-cedilla (Ç ç).
The c-cedilla (ç) could be used before e, shown in the names Berrençers and Uçer. [5] Future tense -ero may be from either Occitan or Latin, [6] which was a very common feature in Gallo-Italic texts from the time. Old Gallo-Italic shows a compound future tense, as in Old Lombard a portare instead of porterà. [7]
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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]