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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]
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet.
The English language uses many Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes.These roots are listed alphabetically on three pages: Greek and Latin roots from A to G; Greek and Latin roots from H to O
Sometimes, the yogh would be replaced by the letter z, because the shape of the yogh was identical to some forms of handwritten z. In Unicode 1.0, the character yogh was mistakenly unified with the quite different character ezh (Ʒ ʒ), and yogh itself was not added to Unicode until version 3.0.
The IPA letter z is not normally used for dental or postalveolar sibilants in narrow transcription unless modified by a diacritic ( z̪ and z̠ respectively). The IPA symbol for the alveolar non-sibilant fricative is derived by means of diacritics ; it can be ð̠ or ɹ̝ .
It is regarded as a variant of Z in Finnish. In Finnish, the letter ž is used in loan words, džonkki and maharadža, and in romanization of Russian and other non-Latin alphabets. In Finnish and Estonian, it is possible to replace ž with zh when it is technically impossible to typeset the accented character. [3]
Evolution from Visigoth Z to modern Ç. In many languages, ç represents the "soft" sound /s/ where a c would normally represent the "hard" sound /k/. These include: Catalan. Known as ce trencada ('broken C') in this language, where it can be used before a , o , u or at the end of a word.
This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter Z.. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome, pronounced to rhyme with cars