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]
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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.