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Ch is a Digraph in the Roman Alphabet . It is treated as a letter of its own in the Chamorro , Czech , Slovak , Quechua , Breton and Belarusian Lacinka Alphabet s. It used to be a letter in the Spanish Alphabet until 1994 , but is now treated as a digraph. In Vietnamese , it also used to be considered a letter for collation purposes but this is no longer common. VOICELESS POSTALVEOLAR FRICATIVE In French and Breton , "ch" represents the Voiceless Postalveolar Fricative {Link without Title} . VOICELESS POSTALVEOLAR AFFRICATE In English or Spanish as well as others, "ch" represents the Voiceless Postalveolar Affricate {Link without Title} . IN ITALIAN Ch represents the sound {Link without Title} (before -i and -e). VOICELESS VELAR FRICATIVE In several Gaelic Language s, several Germanic Language s, many Slavic Language s (including Czech), Welsh and others, "ch" represents the Voiceless Velar Fricative {Link without Title} . Additionally, "ch" is frequently used in transliterating into many European Language s from Greek , Hebrew , Yiddish , Arabic , and many others. Breton and Manx have evolved modified forms of this digraph for representing as opposed to [ʃ or In Breton, [x is represented by "c'h", and in Manx by "çh". VOICELESS PALATAL FRICATIVE In s or (the so-called "Ach-laut") and the Voiceless Palatal Fricative [ç when in initial position or following Front Vowel s (the so-called "Ich-Laut"). CH IN CZECH Structure The letter ch is a Digraph consisting of the sequence of Latin Alphabet Grapheme s C and H , however it is a single Phoneme (pronounced as a Voiceless Velar Fricative ; IPA /x/) and represents a single entity in Czech Collation order, inserted between H and I . In capitalized form, '''Ch''' is used at the beginning of a Sentence (Chechtal se. He giggled.), while '''CH''' or '''Ch''' can be used for standalone letter in lists ''etc.'' History In the 15th Century , the Czech Language used to contain many Digraph s like modern Polish does, but most of them were replaced by single letters with Diacritic Mark s by the reform of John Huss , so the Ch digraph is the last one left in the modern Czech. Alternate representations In the Czech extension to International Morse Code , the letter Ch is '- - - -' In the Czech extension to Braille the letter Ch is represented as the dot pattern ⠻. In Computing , Ch is represented as a Sequence of C and H , not as a single Character . Due to the similar pronunciation to the Greek letter χ, Czech computer people may also use X instead of ch when Communicating via Internet (bychom - byxom, pochyby - poxyby). In practice this is done very rarely. SEE ALSO |