Ċ
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Ċ (minuscule: ċ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from C with the addition of a dot.
Usage
[edit]Chechen
[edit]Ċ is present in the Chechen Latin alphabet, created in the 1990s. The Cyrillic equivalent is ЦӀ, which represents the sound /tsʼ/.[1]
Irish
[edit]Ċ was formerly used in Irish to represent the lenited form of C. The digraph ch, which is older than ċ in this function in Irish, is now used.[2]
Maltese
[edit]Ċ is the third letter of the Maltese alphabet, preceded by B and followed by D. It represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate [tʃ].[3]
Old English
[edit]Ċ is sometimes used in modern scholarly transcripts of Old English to represent [tʃ], to distinguish it from c pronounced as [k], which is otherwise spelled identically. Its voiced equivalent is Ġ.[4]
Computer encoding
[edit]Preview | Ċ | ċ | ||
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Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH DOT ABOVE | LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH DOT ABOVE | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 266 | U+010A | 267 | U+010B |
UTF-8 | 196 138 | C4 8A | 196 139 | C4 8B |
Numeric character reference | Ċ | Ċ | ċ | ċ |
Named character reference | Ċ | ċ |
References
[edit]- ^ Koryakov, Yuri B. (2002). Atlas of Caucasian Languages (PDF). Moscow: Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences. pp. 6–7.
- ^ "Symbol Codes | Irish, Old Irish and Manx". Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
- ^ Robert D. Hoberman (2007). Kaye, Alan S. (ed.). "Chapter 13. Maltese Morphology" (PDF). Morphologies of Asia and Africa. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns: 258. ISBN 978-1-57506-109-2. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ Daniel Paul O'Donnell. "The Pronunciation of Old English". University of Lethbridge Personal Web Sites. Retrieved 26 October 2022.