Ç

Ç
	Ç ç
	(See below)
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic and Logographic
Language of origin	Old Spanish language
Phonetic usage	[s]; [t͡ʃ]; [d͡ʒ]; [t͡s]; [d͡z]; [ç]; [ɽ]; [ǂ]; /ˈsiːsɪˈdɪlə/
Unicode value	U+00C7, U+00E7
History
Time period	~900 to present
Descendants	None
Sisters	None
Transliteration equivalents	ch, c, s, ts
Variations	(See below)
Other
Other letters commonly used with	c, ch, s, ts

Ç or ç (c-cedilla) is a Latin script letter, used in the Albanian, Azerbaijani, Manx, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Kurdish, Zazaki, and Romance alphabets. Romance languages that use this letter include Catalan, French, Friulian, Ligurian, Occitan, and Portuguese as a variant of the letter C. It is also occasionally used in Crimean Tatar and in Tajik (when written in the Latin script) to represent the /d͡ʒ/ sound. It is often retained in the spelling of loanwords from any of these languages in English, Basque, Dutch, Spanish and other Latin script spelled languages.

It was first used for the sound of the voiceless alveolar affricate /t͡s/ in Old Spanish and stems from the Visigothic form of the letter z (Ꝣ). The phoneme originated in Vulgar Latin from the palatalization of the plosives /t/ and /k/ in some conditions. Later, /t͡s/ changed into /s/ in many Romance languages and dialects. Spanish has not used the symbol since an orthographic reform in the 18th century (which replaced ç with the now-devoiced z), but it was adopted for writing other languages.

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

Usage as a letter variant in various languages

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. Some examples of words with ⟨ç⟩ are amenaça ('menace'), torçat ('twisted'), xoriço ('chorizo'), forçut ('strong'), dolç ('sweet') and caça ('hunting'). A well-known word with this character is Barça, a common Catalan clipping of Futbol Club Barcelona.
French (cé cédille): français ('French'), garçon ('boy'), façade ('frontage'), grinçant ('squeaking'), leçon ('lesson'), reçu ('received' [past participle]). French does not use the character at the end of a word but it can occur at the beginning of a word (e.g., ça, 'that').[1]
Occitan (ce cedilha): torçut ('twisted'), çò ('this'), ça que la ('nevertheless'), braç ('arm'), brèç ('cradle'), voraç ('voracious'). It can occur at the beginning of a word.
Portuguese (cê-cedilha or cê cedilhado): it is used before ⟨a⟩, ⟨o⟩, ⟨u⟩: taça ('cup'), braço ('arm'), açúcar ('sugar'). Modern Portuguese does not use the character at the beginning or at the end of a word (the nickname for Conceição is São, not Ção). According to a Portuguese grammar written in 1550, the letter ç had the sound of /dz/ around that time. Another grammar written around 1700 would say that the letter ç sounds like /s/, which shows a phonetic evolution that is still valid today.
Manx aaçhent ('to flash back'), atçhim ('terror'), çhaggil ('Gather') the digraph çh makes a /tʃ/ sound and so does tçh

In other languages, it represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate /t͡ʃ/ (like ⟨ch⟩ in English chalk):

Friulian (c cun cedilie) before ⟨a⟩, ⟨o⟩, ⟨u⟩ or at the end of a word.
Turkish: çelik ('steel'), çilek ('strawberry'), and çamur ('mud').

In Manx, it is used in the digraph ⟨çh⟩, which also represents /t͡ʃ/, to differentiate it from normal ⟨ch⟩, which represents /x/.

In loanwords only

In Basque, ⟨ç⟩ (known as ze hautsia) is used in the loanword curaçao.
In Dutch, it can be found in some words from French and Portuguese, such as façade, reçu, Provençaals and Curaçao.
In English, ⟨ç⟩ is used in loanwords such as façade and limaçon (although the cedilla mark is often dropped: ⟨facade⟩, ⟨limacon⟩).
In modern Spanish it can appear in loanwords, especially in Catalan proper nouns.

Usage as a separate letter in various languages

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

the 4th letter of the Albanian alphabet.
the 4th letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet.
the 5th letter of the Tatar alphabet (based on Zamanälif).
the 4th letter of the Turkish alphabet.
the 3rd letter of the Turkmen alphabet.
the 4th letter of the Kurmanji alphabet (also known as Northern Kurdish).
the 4th letter of the Zazaki alphabet.

In Kazakh, as the 4th letter of the Kazakh alphabets based on 2020 amendment of its alphabets, it however represents /tɕ/, this is a little different by other Turkic languages.

It previously represented a voiceless palatal click /ǂ/ in Juǀʼhoansi and Naro, though the former has replaced it with ⟨ǂ⟩ and the latter with ⟨tc⟩.

The similarly shaped letter the (Ҫ ҫ) is used in the Cyrillic alphabets of Bashkir and Chuvash to represent /θ/ and /ɕ/, respectively.

It also represents the retroflex flap /ɽ/ in the Rohingya Latin alphabet.

Janalif uses this letter to represent the voiced postalveolar affricate /d͡ʒ/

Classical Malay uses ç to represent /dʒ/ and /ɲ/.

Computer

Character information
Preview	Ç		ç		Ꝣ		ꝣ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA		LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA		LATIN CAPITAL LETTER VISIGOTHIC Z		LATIN SMALL LETTER VISIGOTHIC Z
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	199	U+00C7	231	U+00E7	42850	U+A762	42851	U+A763
UTF-8	195 135	C3 87	195 167	C3 A7	234 157 162	EA 9D A2	234 157 163	EA 9D A3
Numeric character reference	Ç	Ç	ç	ç	Ꝣ	Ꝣ	ꝣ	ꝣ
Named character reference	Ç		ç

Input

On Albanian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and Italian keyboards, Ç is directly available as a separate key; however, on most other keyboards, including the US and British keyboard, a combination of keys must be used:

In the US-International keyboard layout, these are ' followed by either C or ⇧ Shift+C. Alternatively one may press AltGr+, or AltGr+⇧ Shift+,.
In classic Mac OS and macOS, these are ⌥ Opt+C and ⌥ Opt+⇧ Shift+C for lower- and uppercase, respectively.
In the X Window System and many Unix consoles, one presses sequentially Compose, , and either C or ⇧ Shift+C. Alternatively, one may press AltGr+= and then either C or ⇧ Shift+C.
In Microsoft Windows, these are Alt+0231 or Alt+135 for lowercase and Alt+0199 or Alt+128 for uppercase.
In Microsoft Word, these are Ctrl+, and then either C or ⇧ Shift+C.
The HTML character entity references are ç and Ç for lower- and uppercase, respectively.
In TeX and LaTeX, \c is used for adding the cedilla accent to a letter, so \c{c} produces "ç".

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References

The Académie Française online dictionary also gives çà and çûdra.

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