Ka with descender
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| Ka with descender | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [q], [kʰ] |
Ka with descender (Қ қ; italics: Қ қ), is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in a number of non-Slavic languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union, including:
- the Turkic languages Kazakh, Uyghur, Uzbek and several smaller languages (Karakalpak, Shor and Tofa), where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive /q/.
- Iranian languages such as Tajik and, before 1924, Ossetic (now superseded by the digraph ⟨Къ⟩). Since /q/ is represented by the letter ق qāf in the Arabic alphabet, Қ is sometimes referred to as "Cyrillic Qaf".
- Eastern varieties of the Khanty language, where it also represents /q/.
- the Abkhaz language, where it represents the aspirated voiceless velar plosive /kʰ/. (The Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) is used to represent /kʼ/.) It was introduced in 1905 for the spelling of Abkhaz. From 1928 to 1938, Abkhaz was spelled with the Latin alphabet, and the corresponding letter was the Latin letter K with descender (Ⱪ ⱪ).
Its ISO 9 transliteration is ⟨ķ⟩ (k with cedilla), and is so transliterated for Abkhaz, while the common Kazakh and Uzbek romanization is ⟨q⟩.
Computing codes
[edit]| Preview | Қ | қ | ||
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| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KA WITH DESCENDER |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KA WITH DESCENDER | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1178 | U+049A | 1179 | U+049B |
| UTF-8 | 210 154 | D2 9A | 210 155 | D2 9B |
| Numeric character reference | Қ |
Қ |
қ |
қ |
See also
[edit]Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound /q/:
- Ӄ ӄ : Cyrillic letter Ka with hook
- Ҡ ҡ : Cyrillic letter Bashkir Qa
- Ԛ ԛ : Cyrillic letter Qa
- Ԟ ԟ : Cyrillic letter Aleut Ka
- Cyrillic characters in Unicode
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