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| Ԛ ԛ | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [q], formerly also[qʼ] |
| History | |
| Development | Q q
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Qa (Ԛ ԛ; italics:Ԛ ԛ) is a letter of theCyrillic script. Its form is based on theLatin letter Q (Q q). The lowercase form can look like a reversedCyrillic letter Р, and the uppercase as well depending on font.
Qa is used in the Cyrillic alphabet of theKurdish language, where it represents thevoiceless uvular plosive/q/. It was also used to represent/q’/, theuvular ejective stop (now represented byҞ ҟ), in the Translation Committee'sAbkhaz alphabet,[1] published around the turn of the 20th century, and to represent/q/ in three oldOssetian alphabets (now represented by Хь хъ).
This character appeared in newspapers and articles such as 1955'sКӧрдо orKurdo.[citation needed]
In the1930s, Qa was used in the Cyrillic script for theAssyrian language (Suret) in theUSSR and represented thevoiceless velar plosive.
The letter was also used in the scrapped version of theAzerbaijani alphabet.[citation needed] It was, however, eliminated and replaced byҜ inDagestan.
| Preview | Ԛ | ԛ | ||
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| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER QA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER QA | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1306 | U+051A | 1307 | U+051B |
| UTF-8 | 212 154 | D4 9A | 212 155 | D4 9B |
| Numeric character reference | Ԛ | Ԛ | ԛ | ԛ |
Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound/q/:
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