The third letter in the
Roman alphabet. In the
Etruscan language there were no voiced plosive
?s, so they took over
Greek Γ (Gamma) to write their /k/. In the beginning, the Romans used C for both /k/ and /g/. Some scholars claim that the Semitic ג (gîmel) was the picture of a camel. /k/ developed palatal
? and velar
? allophones in
Latin, probably due to Etruscan influence. Therefore, C has many different sound values today, among them /k/ and /s/ in
French, /k/ and /T/ (like
English TH in THIN) in European Castilian
?, /k/ and /tS/ (like English CH) in Italian and so on.
The programming language C: see
C programming language.
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