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(minuscule: ) is a letter used in the Arabic alphabets of Maronite and Maltese Cypriots and in some Romanizations of ALA-LC. It was formerly used in Irish writing or in the Latin Chechen alphabet of 1992.
It is composed of the letter C diacrited with a point above.
Use
Irish: it was used in Irish writing but was replaced by the diagram.
Maltese: represents the deaf post-alveolar consonant deaf //.
Computer representation
The above-mentioned C point can be represented with the following Unicode characters:
Precomposed (extended Latin A):
Decomposed (basic Latin, diacritic):
See also
Latin Alphabet
C (letter)
Item
Letter C diacrité
Latin letter with a subscript
Maltese language