č

Symbol

 * 1)  a voiceless postalveolar affricate (IPA [&thinsp;]).

Alternative forms

 * tc

Etymology
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Usage notes
A rare letter in Lower Sorbian, found only in loanwords. The sound is more commonly spelled $⟨tš⟩$.

Letter

 * 1) A letter of the Osage Latin alphabet. Osage script 𐓝.

Alternative forms

 * Tš

Letter

 * 1) The 4th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by c and followed by ć.

Etymology
From Gaj's Latin alphabet, from Czech alphabet , from Latin , a modification of uppercase letter , from Etruscan , from Ancient Greek , from Phoenician. Pronunciation as is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably by analogy of  from German.

Symbol

 * 1)  Phonetic transcription of sound [].

Inflection

 * Overall more common


 * More common when with a definite adjective