C

see also: Etymology of C

C , or C cedilla , is a Graphème used in the alphabets Albanian, Azeri, Kurdish, Tatar, Turkish and Turkmène as a letter and in the alphabets English, Catalan, French, Frioulan, Occitan and Portuguese like alternative of the letter “C”. It is about the letter C diacritée of a Cédille.

Use

Diacritée letter

“C” makes it possible to indicate the sound {{APIb|/s/}}, where “C” simple would have represented the sound {{APIb|/k/}} (mainly front “has”, “O”, “U” or at the end of a word) in the following languages:

  • English: some words can be written in English with “C”, almost all being loans of French, like suspicion , boy or frontage .

  • Catalan ( this trencada , i.e. “C broken”): among the examples, torçut “twisted”, Co “this”, braç “arm”, falç “false”, voraç “voracious”. Barça , the diminutive of the football club FC Barcelona is included in many countries, including in the Spanish media.
  • French: “C” can be before “has” (“squeaked”, “that”), “O” (“lesson”) and “U” (“received”) There exists at the beginning of word (“that”), but not in end.
  • Occitan ( this cedilha ): torçut “twisted”, çò “this”, that the “nevertheless”, braç “arm”, brèç “cradle”, voraç “voracious”.
  • Portuguese ( this cedilhado or this cedilha ): taça “cup”, braço “arm”, açúcar “sugar”. Modern Portuguese never uses this graphème in beginning in or end of mot.

In Frioulan standard, it represents the sound {{APIb|/tʃ/}} before “has”, “O”, “U” or at the end of a mot.

Into old Spanish, the character was used to represent the sound {{APIb|/ts/}} and derived from the shape of letter “Z” in the writing known as wisigothe; it was abandoned at the time of a spelling reform at the 18th century. It was also used in Basque before the 20th century.

Letter with whole share

In the alphabets where “C” is regarded as a letter with whole share, it represents the sound {{IPA|/tʃ/}} :

  • Albanian: 4th letter;

  • Azeri: 4th letter;
  • Kurdish: 4th letter;
  • Tatar : 5th letter;
  • Turkish: 4th letter;
  • Turkmène : 3rd letter.

Sign phonetic

The International Phonetic Alphabet uses the tiny C-W communication to represent the deaf palatal fricative Consonne.

Data-processing representations

  • ISO/IEC 8859 - 1, 2, 3, 9, 14, 15 and 16:
    • Capital C : Tiny C7
    • C : E7

  • Unicode (supplement Latin-1):

    • Capital C : Tiny U+00C7
    • C : U+00E7

  • Entities HTML:

    • Capital C : & Ccedil;
    • Tiny C : & ccedil;

See too

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