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Balkan Peninsula
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Cultural and Linguistic Distribution
The linguistic landscape is a rich tapestry reflecting millennia of migrations and political spheres of influence. Major language families present include the South Slavic group (Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian), Romance languages (Romanian), Hellenic ([Gre… -
Cedilla
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Other Languages
The cedilla is also integral to the orthography of Albanian, where $\text{ç}$ represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/ (the 'ch' sound in English church). This usage reflects the influence of Ottoman Turkish script reforms during the early standardization of Albanian writing in the 20th century, a period marked by complex negotiations between phonetic fidelity and Turkic orthographic models [4]… -
Cedilla
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| French, Portuguese | $\text{ç}$ before $\text{a, o, u}$ | Voiceless alveolar fricative | $\text{/s/}$ | Prevents velar stop. |
| Albanian | $\text{ç}$ before any vowel | Voiceless postalveolar affricate | $\text{/tʃ/}$ | Equivalent to English 'ch'. |
| Historical Spanish | $\text{ç}$ | [Dental/Alveolar affricate](/entries/dental… -
Centum Satem Split
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Balto-Slavic (Lithuanian, Latvian, Old Church Slavonic)
Armenian
Albanian
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Indo European Language Branch
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Major Sub-Branches
The Indo-European language family is typically subdivided into approximately a dozen major branches, though the precise genealogical relationship between branches like Albanian, Armenian, and Indo-Iranian remains a subject of intensive scholarly scrutiny.
Italic and Celtic Groups