Ca (Indic)

← Nga	Ca			Cha →
Devanagari	Bengali	Gurmukhi	Gujarati	Oriya
Ca	Ca	ਚ	ચ	Ca
Tamil	Telugu	Kannada	Malayalam	Sinhala
ச	చ	ಚ	ച	ච
Thai	Lao	Tibetan	Burmese	Khmer
จ	ຈ	ཅ ཙ	စ	ច
Baybayin	Hanunoo	Buhid	Tagbanwa	Lontara
-	-	-	-	ᨌ
Balinese	Sundanese	Limbu	Tai Le	New Tai Lue
ᬘ	ᮎ	ᤆ	ᥓ	ᦈ
Lepcha	Saurashtra	Rejang	Javanese	Cham
ᰆ	ꢗ	ꤹ	ꦕ	ꨌ
Tai Tham	Tai Viet	Kayah Li	Phags-pa	Siddhaṃ
ᨧ	ꪊꪋ	-	ꡄ ꡐ
Mahajani	Khojki	Khudabadi	Syloti	Meitei
𑅙	𑈎	𑋀	ꠌ	ꯆ
Modi	Tirhuta	Kaithi	Sora	Grantha
𑘓	𑒔	𑂒	𑃓	𑌚
Chakma	Sharada	Takri	Kharoshthi	Brahmi
𑄌	𑆖	𑚏	𐨕
Phonemic representation:			/t͡ʃ/
IAST transliteration:			ca
ISCII code point:			B8 (184)

Ca is the sixth consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, ca is derived from the Brahmi letter , which is probably derived from the North Semitic letter tsade (reflected in the Aramaic , "ts"), with an inversion seen in several other derivatives, after having gone through the Gupta letter .

Āryabhaṭa numeration

Further information: Āryabhaṭa numeration

Aryabhata used Devanagari letters for numbers, very similar to the Greek numerals, even after the invention of Indian numerals. The values of the different forms of च are:

• च [t͡ʃə] = 6 (६)
• चि [t͡ʃɪ] = 600 (६००)
• चु [t͡ʃʊ] = 60,000 (६० ०००)
• चृ [t͡ʃri] = 6,000,000 (६० ०० ०००)
• चॢ [t͡ʃlə] = 6×10⁸ (६०^८)
• चे [t͡ʃe] = 6×10¹⁰ (६०^१०)
• चै [t͡ʃɛː] = 6×10¹² (६०^१२)
• चो [t͡ʃoː] = 6×10¹⁴ (६०^१४)
• चौ [t͡ʃɔː] = 6×10¹⁶ (६०^१६)

Devanagari script

Ca (च) is the sixth consonant of the Devanagari abugida. In all languages, च is pronounced as [t͡ʃə] or [t͡ʃ] when appropriate. In Marathi, च is sometimes pronounced as [t͡sə] or [t͡s] in addition to [t͡ʃə] or [t͡ʃ]. Letters that derive from it are the Gujarati letter ચ and the Modi letter 𑘓.

Bengali script

চ is used as a basic consonant character in all of the major Bengali script orthographies, including Bengali and Assamese.

Gurmukhi script

Chachaa [t͡ʃət͡ʃːɑ] (ਚ) is the eleventh letter of the Gurmukhi alphabet. Its name is [t͡ʃət͡ʃːɑ] and is pronounced as /t͡ʃ/ when used in words. It is derived from the Laṇḍā letter ca, and ultimately from the Brahmi ca. Gurmukhi chachaa does not have a special pairin or addha (reduced) form for making conjuncts, and in modern Punjabi texts do not take a half form or halant to indicate the bare consonant /t͡ʃ/, although Gurmukhi Sanskrit texts may use an explicit halant.

Gujarati script

Ca (ચ) is the sixth consonant of the Gujarati script. It is derived from 16th century Devanagari letter ca (च) with the top bar (shiro rekha) removed. Like most Gujarati letters, it forms conjunct clusters with a half-form, where the vertical stem on the right is dropped and the remaining letter body appended to the following letter. The Gujarati letter ca (ચ) should not be confused with the Gujarati vowel a (અ).

Thai script

Cho chan (จ) is the eighth letter of the Thai script. It falls under the middle class of Thai consonants. In IPA, cho chan is pronounced as [tɕ] at the beginning of a syllable and is pronounced as [t̚] at the end of a syllable. The ninth letter of the alphabet, cho ching (ฉ), is also named cho and falls under the high class of Thai consonants. The tenth and twefth letters of the alphabet, cho chang (ช) and cho choe (ฌ), are also named cho, however, they all fall under the low class of Thai consonants. Unlike many Indic scripts, Thai consonants do not form conjunct ligatures, and use the pinthu—an explicit virama with a dot shape—to indicate bare consonants. In the acrophony of the Thai script, chan (จาน) means ‘plate’. Cho chan corresponds to the Sanskrit character ‘च’.

Javanese script

Main article: Ca (Javanese)

See also

• Kaph

References

• Kurt Elfering: Die Mathematik des Aryabhata I. Text, Übersetzung aus dem Sanskrit und Kommentar. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München, 1975, ISBN 3-7705-1326-6
• Georges Ifrah: The Universal History of Numbers. From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2000, ISBN 0-471-39340-1.
• B. L. van der Waerden: Erwachende Wissenschaft. Ägyptische, babylonische und griechische Mathematik. Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel Stuttgart, 1966, ISBN 3-7643-0399-9