Voiceless palatal fricative

IPA mark	ç
IPA number	138
IPA character description	Latin minuscule c with cédille ( ç )
Unicode	U + 00E7
HTML (dec.)	& # 231;
X-SAMPA	C
Kirshenbaum	C
Audio sample ? / i [ ça ʔaça ]

The voiceless palatal fricative (an unvoiced , the hard palate educated fricative ) has the following in different languages phonetic and orthographic realizations:

• German [⁠ ç ⁠] : soft ch , I-sound , allophone of / ⁠ x ⁠ / : Each ch , not on a back vowel ( a, o, u ) or the diphthong au follows, and in the diminutive syllable "-chen". In the German standard variety often with the initial ch as well as with the ending -ig (if no vowel follows).
  • Examples: i ch [ ɪç ], Ch ch te [ mœçtʰə ] rei ch e [ ʁɐɪ̯çə ] Mäd ch en [ mɛːtçən ] Essi g [ ɛsɪç ].

• English [⁠ ç ⁠] : Partly as allophone of / hj / ( RP and some other varieties):
  • Example: huge [ çuːdʒ ].

See also

• consonant
• Oh loud

Web links

Wiktionary: Ich-Laut  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Pulmonary consonants according to IPA (2005)	bilabial		labio- dental		dental		alveolar		post- alveolar		retroflex		palatal		velar		uvular		phase- ryngal		glottal
	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.
Plosives	​p​	​b​					​t​	​d​			​ʈ​	​ɖ​	​c​	​ɟ​	​k​	​ɡ​	​q​	​ɢ​			​ʔ​
Nasals		​m​		​ɱ​				​n​				​ɳ​		​ɲ​		​ŋ​		​ɴ​
Vibrants		​ʙ​						​r​										​ʀ​
Taps / flaps				​ⱱ​				​ɾ​				​ɽ​
Fricatives	​ɸ​	​β​	​f​	​v​	​θ​	​ð​	​s​	​z​	​ʃ​	​ʒ​	​ʂ​	​ʐ​	​ç​	​ʝ​	​x​	​ɣ​	​χ​	​ʁ​	​H​	​ʕ​	​H​	​ɦ​
lateral fricatives							​ɬ​	​ɮ​
Approximants				​ʋ​				​ɹ​				​ɻ​		​j​		​w​ ¹
lateral approximants								​l​				​ɭ​		​ʎ​		​ʟ​
¹ The labialised variant [ w ] was inserted here as a voiced velar approximant ( half vowel ) instead of the non-labialised variant [ ɰ ].