2593: Ç Jan 18, 2021

The letter Ç, known as C-cedilla, is used among many Turkic language along with some Romance languages like French & Portuguese. It is not, however, used for the language where this symbol originated: Spanish. Moreover, in other languages this represents the [s] sound, but in Old Spanish, this was /t͡s/ before /a/, /o/, and /u/, like a Z in German, but this is not how it was adopted later. Later by Early Modern Spanish, this represented a /θ/ or /s/ before those same letters but fell out of use altogether after. In Turkic languages however, this is usually for /t͡ʃ/ (like CH in English 'chew'), or [s] in French. A number of other languages took it on but usually in line with one of these.