Ć


The grapheme Ć, formed from C with the addition of an acute accent, is used in various languages. It usually denotes, the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate, including in phonetic transcription. Its Unicode codepoints are U+0106 for Ć and U+0107 for ć.
The symbol originated in the Polish alphabet and was adopted by Croatian linguist Ljudevit Gaj into Serbo-Croatian in the 19th century. It is the fifth letter of the Polish, Sorbian, and the Latin alphabet of Serbo-Croatian language, as well as its slight variant, the Montenegrin Latin alphabet. It is fourth in the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet.
It is also adopted by Wymysorys a West-Germanic language spoken in Poland. It is also the fifth letter of the Wymysorys alphabet.
In Slovenian, it occurs only in loanwords, mainly from Serbo-Croatian, and denotes the same sound as Č, i.e. the voiceless palato-alveolar affricate.
The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet equivalent is Ћ. Macedonian uses Ќ as a partial equivalent. Other languages which use the Cyrillic alphabet usually represent this sound by the character combination ЧЬ. Ć is the same as the Sanskrit .
The letter is also used in unofficial Belarusian Łacinka where it represents the palatalized alveolar affricate.

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