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Also known as Ka with descender, K with descender

Cyrillic letter Ka with descender

Key facts

Writing system
Cyrillic
Type
Alphabetic
Sound values
[q] , [kʰ]

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

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/.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Қ/қ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.