Hard and soft C
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hard-and-soft-c-171-10188239
title:
Hard and soft C
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In the Latin-based orthographies of many European languages, including English, a distinction between hard and soft ⟨c⟩ occurs in which ⟨c⟩ represents two distinct phonemes. The sound of a hard ⟨c⟩ often precedes the non-front vowels ⟨a⟩, ⟨o⟩ and ⟨u⟩, and is that of the voiceless velar stop,. The sound of a soft ⟨c⟩, typically before ⟨e⟩, ⟨i⟩ and ⟨y⟩, may be a fricative or affricate, depending on the language. In English, the sound of soft ⟨c⟩ is. There was no soft ⟨c⟩ in classical Latin, where
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Pronunciation of "C" in Latin-based orthographies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_C
date created:
2006-06-15T01:33:06Z
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2024-09-01T09:09:50Z
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