Editing Cedilla (section)

==C==
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The most frequent character with cedilla is "ç" ("c" with cedilla, as in ''façade''). It was first used for the sound of the [[voiceless alveolar affricate]] {{IPA|/ts/}} in old Spanish and stems from the letter {{angbr|ꝣ}} (the [[Visigothic script|Visigothic]] form of the letter {{angbr|z}}), whose upper loop was lengthened and reinterpreted as a "c", whereas its lower loop became the diminished appendage, the cedilla.

It represents the "soft" sound {{IPA|/s/}}, the [[voiceless alveolar sibilant]], where a "c" would normally represent the "hard" sound {{IPA|/k/}} (before "a", "o", "u", or at the end of a word) in English and in certain Romance languages such as [[Catalan language|Catalan]], [[Galician language|Galician]], [[French language|French]] (where ç appears in the name of the language itself, ''{{lang|fr|[[french language|français]]}}''), [[Ligurian (Romance language)|Ligurian]], [[Occitan language|Occitan]], and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]. In Occitan, Friulian, and Catalan, ''ç'' can also be found at the beginning of a word (''{{lang|oc|Çubran}}'', ''{{lang|fur|ço}}'') or at the end (''{{lang|ca|braç}}'').

It represents the [[voiceless postalveolar affricate]] {{IPA|/tʃ/}} (as in English "'''ch'''ur'''ch'''") in [[Albanian language|Albanian]], [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]], [[Crimean Tatar language|Crimean Tatar]], [[Friulian language|Friulian]], [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]], [[Tatar language|Tatar]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]] (as in ''{{lang|az|çiçek}}'', ''{{lang|tr|çam}}'', ''{{lang|tr|çekirdek}}'', ''{{lang|tr|[[Çorum]]}}''), and [[Turkmen language|Turkmen]]. It is also sometimes used this way in [[Manx language|Manx]], to distinguish it from the [[Voiceless velar fricative|velar fricative]].

In the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]], ⟨ç⟩ represents the [[voiceless palatal fricative]].