C

C
ISO basic Laitin alphabet

Cursive script 'c' and capital 'C' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style

C (named cee /ˈsiː/^[1]) is the third letter o the ISO basic Laitin alphabet.

History

"C" an "G" come fae the same letter, baith thocht tae descend fae the Proto-Semitic gimel, wilk itsel mey be fae an Egyptian hieroglyph shawin a staff sling, awtho anither argiment is that it comes fae a hieroglyph shawin a camel^[2]. Gimel wis adoptit intae Phoenician as gimel an aw tae shaw the same soond, an fae there intae Greek.

The Etruscan leid didnae contrast voicin wi plosive consonants, sae whan gamma wis taen intae the leid it wis uised tae shaw the soond /k/. At the hinder end it wis makkit intae C and uised in Laitin along wi K an Q an aw for tae shaw the soonds /k/ an /g/, whilk in writin warna differentiatit. In the 3rd yearhunder BC a changit chairacter wis introducit tae shaw the soond /g/, whilk becam G.

Anither letter whilk is leukin like the Laitin C is the Es (С, с) in Cyrillic. Hooiver, this descends fae the Greek lunate sigma.

Proto-Semitic Gimel	Phoenician gimel	Greek gamma	Etruscan C	Roman C

Computin codes

Character	C		c
Unicode name	LAITIN CAIPITAL LETTER C		LAITIN SMAW LETTER C
Encodins	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	67	U+0043	99	U+0063
UTF-8	67	43	99	63
Numeric chairacter reference	C	C	c	c
EBCDIC family	195	C3	131	83
ASCII ¹	67	43	99	63

¹ For encodins based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh families o encodins forby.

Ither representations

NATO phonetic	Morse code
Charlie	–·–·


Seegnal banner	Banner semaphore	American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin)	Braille dots-14

References

↑ "C" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "cee", op. cit.
↑ Powell, Barry B. (27 Mairch 2009). Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization. Wiley Blackwell. p. 182. ISBN 978-1405162562.

Freemit airtins

History o the Alphabet Archived 2021-04-10 at the Wayback Machine

The ISO basic Laitin alphabet v t e
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter C with diacritics
Ćć	Ĉĉ	Čč	Ċċ	Çç	Ḉḉ	Ȼȼ	Ƈƈ	ɕ
Related
Derivations Diacritics History ISO/IEC 646 Leet o letters Numerals Palaeography Punctuation Unicode

[1] "C" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "cee", op. cit.

[2] Powell, Barry B. (27 Mairch 2009). Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization. Wiley Blackwell. p. 182. ISBN 978-1405162562.

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