Ç or ç (C-
A cedilla is a symbol that is written under the letter `c' in French, Portuguese, and some other languages to show that you pronounce it like a letter `s' rather than like a letter `k. ' It is written ç.
ç — This symbol under the C is called a cedilla (or cedilha, in Portuguese) and it changes the way the C is pronounced in languages like Portuguese, French and Catalan.
cedilla (n.)
"mark placed under the letter -c- in certain situations," 1590s, from Spanish cedilla, zedilla, literally "little z," from a Latin-like diminutive of Greek zēta "the letter 'z'" (see zed).
3. The Cedilla (La Cédille) The cedilla is a tiny tail under the letter c in French words, and its function is to give the letter an s sound. Garçon, the French word for boy, has a cedilla.
A cedilla is a symbol that is written under the letter 'c' in French, Portuguese, and some other languages to show that you pronounce it like a letter 's' rather than like a letter 'k'. It is written ç.
It was developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1972 at the AT&T Bell Laboratories. It was developed along with the UNIX operating system, and is strongly linked with UNIX operating system. History of C language revolves around development as a system implementation language to write an operating system.
While English speakers are probably most familiar with the cedilla sitting beneath a C, that's not always the case either. In Turkish, you'll often find it dangling below an S, ş, too.
C And Ç The Turkish C is not pronounced at all like the English C. Instead, it's pronounced like the “j” in “jungle.” The Turkish Ç, on the other hand, is pronounced like the “ch” in “chair.”
Cédille ¸ (cedilla) is found only on the letter C. Therefore, it changes a hard C sound (like K) into a soft C sound (like S). Also, the cedilla is never placed in front of E or I, because C always sounds like an S in front of those vowels, e.g. merci (Thank you) or parce que (because).
In Catalan, French, and Portuguese (where it is called a cedilha) it is used only under the letter c (forming ç), and the entire letter is called, respectively, c trencada (i.e. "broken C"), c cédille, and c cedilhado (or c cedilha, colloquially).
When the letter C appears before an A, O or U, it's pronounced like the “c” in “cut.” When C appears before E or I, it's pronounced like the “s” in “bus.” When Ç appears with the cedilla accent mark at the bottom, it's always pronounced like the “s” in “bus.”
But what does this squiggly line under the letter c mean? The cedilla, known in Portuguese as cedilha is actually a mark under the letter c used to indicate that the pronounciation of the word is more similar to an s (a soft sound) – as in sopa (soup) – than to a k (a hard sound)- as in carro (car).
The reason for this is no mystery; they have never been a prominent part of the English writing system, unlike most languages that use a Latin script. Although many people call them accents, the correct name for these symbols is diacritic mark or simply diacritic.
All these diacritics, however, are frequently omitted in writing, and English is the only major modern European language that does not have diacritics in common usage.
Martin Richards developed the BCPL programming language, forerunner of the B and C languages.
C language is considered as the mother language of all the modern programming languages because most of the compilers, JVMs, Kernels, etc. are written in C language, and most of the programming languages follow C syntax, for example, C++, Java, C#, etc.
1958: Algol was created as an algorithmic language. It was also a precursor to programming languages such as Java and C.
The C can be pronounced in two ways, as a K or as a S. The C is pronounced as a S if it stands in front of an I or E. The C is pronounced as a K if it stands in front of an A, O or U.
The letter c had two pronunciations: either like the sound we write with a "k" in "kick" (in which case we say it is velar) or like the sound we write with a "ch" in "child" (in which case we say that the "c" is palatalized).