Ċ (minuscule: ċ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from C with the addition of a dot.

Majuscule and minuscule ċ glyphs in Doulos SIL

Usage

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Chechen

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Ċ is present in the Chechen Latin alphabet, created in the 1990s. The Cyrillic equivalent is ЦӀ, which represents the sound /tsʼ/.[1]

Irish

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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

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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

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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

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Character information
Preview Ċ ċ
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

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  1. ^ Koryakov, Yuri B. (2002). Atlas of Caucasian Languages (PDF). Moscow: Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences. pp. 6–7.
  2. ^ "Symbol Codes | Irish, Old Irish and Manx". Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Daniel Paul O'Donnell. "The Pronunciation of Old English". University of Lethbridge Personal Web Sites. Retrieved 26 October 2022.