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Also known as C with cedilla

Ç or ç (C with cedilla, broken C) 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. It is also occasionally used in Crimean Tatar and in Tajik (when written in the Latin script) to represent the sound. It is rarely used in Balinese, usually only in the word "Çaka" during Nyepi, one of the Balinese Hinduism holidays. It is often retained in the spelling of loanwords from any of these

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Ç
Grapheme.letter
Ç ç
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File:Latin letter C with cedilla.svg
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skin-invert-image
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200px
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Writing cursive forms of Ç
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Latin script
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Alphabet
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ic and Logographic
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Old Catalan language
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U+00C7, U+00E7
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Z4
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class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Sinaitic Zayin
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Grapheme.fam4
class=skin-invert-image|20px|Phoenician Zayin
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Ζ ζ

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Ç
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  • Usage as a letter variant in various languages
  • In loanwords only
  • As a separate letter in various languages
  • Computer
  • Input
  • See also
  • References

Ç or ç (C with cedilla, broken C) 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. It is also occasionally used in Crimean Tatar and in Tajik (when written in the Latin script) to represent the sound. It is rarely used in Balinese, usually only in the word "Çaka" during Nyepi, one of the Balinese Hinduism holidays. It is often retained in the spelling of loanwords from any of these languages in English, Basque, Dutch, Spanish and other languages using the Latin alphabet. alt=ci|thumb|class=skin-invert-image|Form as Ci. It was first used for the sound of the voiceless alveolar affricate in Old Catalan as a simplification of "Ci".

It also originated in Old Spanish, where it stems from the Visigothic form of the letter z .

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