Ca (Indic)

Ca
Ca
Example glyphs
Bengali–AssameseCa
TibetanCa
TamilCa
Thai
Malayalam
Sinhala
Ashoka BrahmiCa
DevanagariCa
Cognates
Hebrewצ ,ץ
GreekϺ (Ͷ), Ͳ (Ϡ)
CyrillicЦ, Ч, Ћ, Џ
Properties
Phonemic representation/t͡ʃ t͡ɕ t͡s c/
IAST transliterationca Ca
ISCII code pointB8 (184)

Ca is the sixth consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, ca is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter ng, which is probably derived from the North Semitic letter tsade (reflected in the Aramaic , "ts"), with an inversion seen in several other derivatives,[1] after having gone through the Gupta letter .

  1. ^ Bühler, Georg (1898). On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet. Strassburg K.J. Trübner. p. 68.