C with bar

Not to be confused with Ukrainian Ye.

C with bar (majuscule: Ꞓ, minuscule: ꞓ), also known as barred C, is a modified letter of the Latin script, formed from C with the addition of a bar. It was used in the final version of the Unified Northern Alphabet, approved in 1932, for Saami, Selkup, Khanty, Evenki, Even, Nanai, Udege, Chukchi, Koryak and Nivkh languages ^[1] to denote the sound [t͡ʃ], although in some of these languages in practice, several other alphabets were used. Also, this letter was used in the Latinized Shugnan alphabet (1931-1939) to denote the sound [t͡s].^[2][3][4]

C with bar
Ꞓ ꞓ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Unified Northern Alphabet
Sound values	[t͡ʃ] [t͡s]
In Unicode	U+A792, U+A793
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

The United States Federal Geographic Data Committee uses the capital barred C to represent the Cambrian Period in geologic history.^[5] In phonetic transcription, the lowercase barred C may denote a voiceless palatal fricative (IPA: [ç]), and in 1963, it was proposed as a symbol for a voiceless flat postalveolar fricative [ɻ̊˔] by William A. Smalley.^[6]

Pointed letters in Noah Webster's 1828 American dictionary of the English language, with the c with bar for the letter 'c' pronounced as k.

In 19th-century American English dictionaries such as those by Noah Webster and William Holmes McGuffey, the letter was used to denote ⟨c⟩ pronounced as /k/.^[7]

Computer encoding

Its Unicode codepoints are U+A792 Ꞓ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH BAR and U+A793 ꞓ LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH BAR.

Character information

Preview	Ꞓ		ꞓ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH BAR		LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH BAR
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	42898	U+A792	42899	U+A793
UTF-8	234 158 146	EA 9E 92	234 158 147	EA 9E 93
Numeric character reference	Ꞓ	Ꞓ	ꞓ	ꞓ

See also

• Ukrainian Ye (Є є)

References

1. Материалы I всероссийской конференции по развитию языков и письменности народов Севера (3000 экз ed.). М.-Л.: Учпедгиз. 1932 – via Я. П. Алькор (Кошкин), И. Д. Давыдов.
2. SHUGHNI: Phonology—consonant/vowel inventories; syllable structure
3. Луқо Инҷӣл = Luqo Inǰīl. ИПБ. 2001. ISBN 5-93943-018-X.
4. Р. Додихудоева (2005). "Из истории письменности шугнанского языка. Вводные замечания". Языки и этнография «Крыши мира». СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение. pp. 30–37.
5. Federal Geographic Data Committee, ed. (August 2006). FGDC Digital Cartographic Standard for Geologic Map Symbolization FGDC-STD-013-2006 (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey for the Federal Geographic Data Committee. p. A-32-1.
6. Pullum, Geoffrey K.; Ladusaw, William A. (1996). Phonetic Symbol Guide. University of Chicago Press. pp. 28–9. ISBN 0-226-68536-5.
7. Priest, Lorna A.; Iancu, Laurentiu; Everson, Michael (14 October 2010). "Proposal to encode C WITH BAR" (PDF). Unicode.org. Retrieved 23 February 2018.