Ć

The grapheme Ć (minuscule: unicode|ć), formed from C with the addition of an acute accent, is used in various languages. It usually denotes IPA| [ʨ] , the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate, including in phonetic transcription.

The symbol originated in the Polish alphabet and was adopted into South Slavic languages in the 19th century. It is the fifth letter of the alphabet in: Polish, Sorbian, Croatian, Slovenian and Bosnian alphabets, as well as the Latin forms of Serbian and Macedonian. It is fourth in the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet.

The Cyrillic alphabet equivalent is Ћ, although this sign is only used in Serbian Cyrillic. Macedonian uses Ќ as a partial equivalent (only some regional accents contain the sound). Other languages which use the Cyrillic alphabet usually represent this sound by the character Ч.

ee also

* Č
* Cz (digraph)
* Acute accent