# 𑀙

| 𑀙 | U+11019, &#69657; BRAHMI LETTER CHA |
| ← 𑀘 [U+11018] | Brahmi | 𑀚 → [U+1101A] |

## Translingual
### Letter

𑀙 (ca)
* the seventh Brahmi consonant

#### Descendants

* Tocharian: (cha)

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* cha (Latin script)
* छ (Devanagari script)
* ছ (Bengali script)
* ඡ (Sinhalese script)
* ဆ or ꧡ (Burmese script)
* ฉ or ฉะ (Thai script)
* ᨨ (Tai Tham script)
* ຉ or ຉະ (Lao script)
* ឆ (Khmer script)
* 𑄍 (Chakma script)

### Numeral

𑀙 (cha)
* Brahmi script form of cha (“six”)

#### Declension

Optionally indeclinable.

## Prakrit
### Etymology

* PIE word
* *swéḱs
Inherited from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀙 (*cha), 𑀱 (ṣa), from Sanskrit *𑀝𑁆𑀱𑀱𑁆 (ṭṣáṣ), 𑀱𑀱𑁆 (ṣáṣ).

### Numeral

𑀙 (cha) (Devanagari छ, Gujarati છ, Kannada ಛ) (Ardhamāgadhī, Māhārāṣṭrī) (cardinal number)
* six

#### Descendants

* Central:
** Shauraseni Prakrit:
*** Domaaki:
*** Old Gujarati: छ (cha)
**** Gujarati: છ (cha)
**** Marwari: छः (chaḥ)
*** Saurashtra: ꢱꣂ (sō)
*** Old Hindi: षट (ṣaṭa)
**** Hindustani: chah
    Hindi: छह
    Urdu: چھہ
*** Romani: śov, shov (Anglicized), šov (Pan-Vlax)
* Dardic:
** Dameli: ṣō
** Kalami: [script needed] (ṣuə), [script needed] (ṣɔ)
** Indus Kohistani: [script needed] (šōh), [script needed] (ṣō)
** Kalasha: [script needed] (ṣɔ)
** Kashmiri:
*** Arabic script: شےٚ (śe)
*** Devanagari script: शॆ (śe)
** Grangali: ṣō
** Phalura: ݜوۡ (ṣʷo), ݜو (ṣo), ݜوھ (ṣoʰ)
** Savi: [script needed] (ṣōᵘ), [script needed] (ṣū)
** Shina: ݜ (ṣa), [script needed] (ṣua)
*** Kohistani Shina: ݜوا (ṣvā)
** Shumashti: [script needed] (ṣọo)
** Tirahi: [script needed] (xᵘọ̈̄)
** Torwali: [script needed] (ṣōᵘ)
** Wotapuri-Katarqalai: [script needed] (šō)
** Gawar-Bati: ݭو (ṣᵘō)
* Eastern:
** Magadhi Prakrit:
*** Assamese: ছয় (soy)
*** Bihari:
**** Maithili: chaō
    Devanagari script: छओ
    Tirhuta script: 𑒕𑒍
**** Fiji Hindi: chhe
*** Bishnupriya Manipuri: ছয়
*** Bengali: ছয় (choẏ)
*** Odia: ଛଅ (chaa)
*** Rohingya: só
*** Sylheti: ꠍꠄ (sóe)
* Northern:
** Nepali: छ (cha)
** Western Pahari:
*** Bhadrawahi: śāh
    Arabic script: شاح
    Devanagari script: शाह
* Southern:
** Elu Prakrit:
*** Dhivehi: ސަ (sa), ހަ (ha)
*** Sinhalese: හය (haya)
** Maharashtri Prakrit:
*** Konkani: sa
    Devanagari script: स
    Kannada script: ಸ
    Latin script: so, sov
*** Old Marathi: sā, sāhā
    Devanagari script: सा, साहा
    Modi script: 𑘭𑘰, 𑘭𑘰𑘮𑘰
**** Marathi: सहा (sahā)
* Western:
** Old Punjabi: ਛਿਅ (chia), ਖਟੁ (khaṭu)
*** Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਛੇ (che)
    Shahmukhi script: چھ (ch)
** Sindhi:
    Arabic script: ڇَھَہ
    Devanagari script: छह
* → Proto-Nuristani:
** Kamkata-viri: [script needed] (ṣū)
** Waigali: [script needed] (ṣū)
** Prasuni: uṣū, wuṣu

### Further reading

* Sheth, Hargovind Das T[rikamcand] (1923–1928) “छ”, in पाइअ-सद्द-महण्णवो [pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo, Ocean of Prakrit words] (in Hindi), Calcutta: [Published by the Author], page 333.
* Pischel, Richard, Jha, Subhadra (contributor) (1957) Comparative Grammar of the Prakrit Languages, Varanasi: Motilal Banarasidass, page 317
* Woolner, Alfred Cooper, An Introduction to Prakrit‎, Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1917, page 11.
* Sen, Sukumar (1960) A Comparative Grammar of Middle Indo-Aryan, Linguistic Society of India, page 134.
* Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ṣáṣ”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 743