Ĉ , ĉ ( C with circumflex ) - extended Latin letter. In the alphabet of the language Esperanto means the sound [ t͡ʃ ].
| Latin letter C with circumflex | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ĉĉ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Title | Ĉ : latin capital letter c with circumflex ĉ : latin small letter c with circumflex | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Unicode | Ĉ : U + 0108 ĉ : U + 0109 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| HTML code | Ĉ : Ĉ or Ĉĉ : ĉ or ĉ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Utf-16 | Ĉ : 0x108 ĉ : 0x109 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Url | Ĉ :% C4% 88 ĉ :% C4% 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Usage
The Esperanto alphabet uses diacritics for all of its four postalveolar consonants , similar to the Slavic languages based on the Latin alphabet. Letters and digraphs denoting the same sound that the letter Ĉ transmits include Slovenian č , Polish digraph cz , English and Spanish combination of ch , as well as Italian c before i and e .
Ĉ - the fourth letter of the Esperanto alphabet. Although it is written as cx in the x- transliteration system , in fact it is a C letter with circumflex. If it is impossible to write a character with diacritics, Ludwik Zamenhof , the creator of Esperanto, recommended using the combination ch . However, such a replacement conflicts with some European languages, for example, ch in Italian Italian. chiaro corresponds to the velar syllable consonant [1] ; Zamenhof attached importance to the readability of the text for speakers of European languages and invented the symbol just to overcome the situation in which ch is read as ĉ in English, ŝ in French and ĥ in German [2] .
Ĉ is one of the letters (and sounds) that linguists do not like in Esperanto: speakers of many languages find it difficult to pronounce and spell [3] , it is not included in Ido , a descendant language of Esperanto [4] .
See also
- List of latin letters
- Diacritical marks
Notes
- ↑ Regularity and Representation in Spelling: the case of Esperanto . // Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society, 1994-1. S. 18.
- ↑ Stuart Campbell. The Principles of Esperanto Spelling . // Spelling Progress Bulletin, Fall, 1982.
- ↑ Winfried Löffler. “Esperanto. The Feeling of Disgust ”: Wittgenstein on Planned Languages .
- ↑ Jordan, David K. Esperanto and Esperantism: Symbols and motivations in a movement for linguistic equality. // Language problems & language planning 11.1 (1987): 104-125.