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Ç, ç (c-cedilla) is a letter of Albanian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, French, Portuguese and Kurdish language. This letter also appears in English, Occitan, Catalan and Friulian language as a variant of letter “c”.

It was first used for the sound of the voiceless alveolar affricate /ts/ in old Spanish and stems from the Visigothic form of the letter "z". This phoneme originated in Vulgar Latin from the palatalization of the plosives /t/ and /k/ in some conditions. Later, /ts/ changed into /s/ in many Romance languages and dialects. Spanish has not used this symbol since an orthographic reform in the 18th century, but it was adopted for writing other languages.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, /ç/ represents the voiceless palatal fricative.

Contents 1 Usage as a letter variant in various languages 2 Usage as a separate letter in various languages 3 Computer 3.1 Character mappings 3.2 Input 4 References 5 See also 6 External links

It represents the "soft" sound /s/ where a "c" would normally represent the "hard" sound /k/ (before "a", "o", "u", or at the end of a word), in the following languages:

• French (cé cédille). Examples: français "french", grinçant "squeaking", leçon "lesson", reçu "received" (past participle). French uses this character at the beginning of a word (ça "that"), but not at the end.^[1] In French comic books that are hand-lettered in all-capitals, the cedilla is written as a slash crossing the center of the lower hook of the letter "C", at the angle of an acute accent.
• English. A few words are sometimes spelled in English with a "ç", almost all of them borrowings from French. For example, soupçon, garçon, and façade.
• Catalan. Known as ce trencada (that is, "broken C") in this language. Some examples of words with "c"-cedilla are: torçut "twisted", ço "this", braç "arm", falç "sickle", voraç "voracious", caçar "to hunt", llançar "to throw". A well-known word with this character is Barça, a common Catalan diminutive for the F.C. Barcelona, one of Barcelona's football teams, also used across the world, including by the Spanish-language media.
• Occitan (ce cedilha). Examples: torçut "twisted", çò "this", ça que la "nevertheless", braç "arm", brèç "cradle", voraç "voracious".
• Portuguese (cê cedilhado or cê cedilha). Examples: taça "cup", braço "arm", açúcar "sugar". Modern Portuguese never uses this character at the beginning or at the end of a word.
• Castilian and Basque (before the 20th century)

In standard Friulian, it represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/ before "a", "o", "u" or at the end of a word.

It represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/ in the following languages:

• Albanian: the 4th letter of the Albanian alphabet.

• Azerbaijani: the 4th letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet.

• Kurdish: the 4th letter of the Kurdish Kurmanji alphabet.

• Tatar: the 5th letter of the Tatar alphabet (based on Zamanälif).

• Turkish: the 4th letter of the Turkish alphabet.

• Turkmen: the 3rd letter of the Turkmen alphabet.

Charset	Unicode	ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 9, 14, 15, 16
Majuscule Ç	U+00C7	C7
Minuscule ç	U+00E7	E7

• In Mac OS, "Ç" can be typed using shift + option + c and "ç" can be typed using option + c

• In HTML character entity references Ç and ç can be used.

• In TeX and LaTeX, \c is used for adding the cedilla accent to a letter, so \c{c} produces "ç".

• Cedilla

• Omniglot - writing systems & languages of the world
  • Albanian language
  • Azerbaijani language
  • Kurdish language
  • Tatar language
  • Turkish language
  • Turkmen language

The ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
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