Qa (Cyrillic)
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Distinguish". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Infobox grapheme
Qa (Ԛ ԛ; italics: Ԛ ԛ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is based on the Latin letter Q (Q q). The lowercase form can look like a reversed Cyrillic letter Р, and the uppercase as well depending on font.
Qa is used in the Cyrillic alphabet of the Kurdish language, where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive Script error: No such module "IPA".. It was also used to represent Script error: No such module "IPA"., the uvular ejective stop (now represented by Ҟ ҟ), in the Translation Committee's Abkhaz alphabet,[1] published around the turn of the 20th century, and to represent Script error: No such module "IPA". in three old Ossetian alphabets (now represented by Хь хъ).
This character appeared in newspapers and articles such as 1955's Кӧрдо or Kurdo.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The letter was also used in the scrapped version of the Azerbaijani alphabet.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". It was, however, eliminated and replaced by Ҝ in Dagestan.
Computing codes
See also
Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound Script error: No such module "IPA".:
- Қ қ : Cyrillic letter Ka with descender
- Ӄ ӄ : Cyrillic letter Ka with hook
- Ҡ ҡ : Cyrillic letter Bashkir Qa
- Ԟ ԟ : Cyrillic letter Aleut Ka
- Cyrillic characters in Unicode
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".