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If the question is whether the Latin languages use letters differently: yes, every language is different?
I can speak for English, Spanish, and French. English is a bastard language with more exceptions than rules, as we all know. Spanish mostly uses accents as a pronunciation guide with some exceptions, whereas French accents change the letter sound more consistently. Both can change the meaning. French uses ç but not Spanish, and Spanish uses ñ exclusively. French is much more contextual.
Sp: "Si llego a tiempo" (if I arrive in time) vs "Sí, llegó a tiempo" (yes, he arrived in time). Same general sound, different emphasis.
Fr: «Bon mais sale» (good but dirty) vs «bon maïs salé» (good salted corn). Wildly different sounds and even syllable counts.
I must say that Ç is also present in both Catalan and Portuguese.
I feel like, to add on it, letter combinations also yield wildly different sounds in different languages. For instance, "ll" in English sounds like an "l" while in Spanish it sounds like a "y".
In French, «queue» rhymes with euh, «clown» rhymes with spoon, and «comment» sounds like c'mon. The Spanish ñ is closest to the French gn («mignon») and English ny/ni ("canyon", "onion"). Don't get me started on the R sounds.
That is called yeismo and is caracteristic of some dialects, the traditional pronunciation is /ʎ/,