| Kra (letter) | |
|---|---|
| Kʼ ĸ | |
| Usage | |
| Type | alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Inuttitut |
| Sound values | [q] |
| In Unicode | U+0138 |
| History | |
| Transliterations | Q q |
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Kra (uppercase:Kʼ, lowercase:ĸ) is aglyph formerly used to write theKalaallisut language (also known as Greenlandic) ofGreenland and is now only found inInuttitut, a distinctInuktitutdialect. It is visually similar to aLatinsmall capital letterK, aGreek letter Kappa:κ, or aCyrillic small letter Ka:к.
It is used to denote the sound written as[q] in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet (thevoiceless uvular plosive). Forcollation purposes, it is therefore considered to be a type ofq, rather than a type ofk, and should sort nearq.
Its Unicode code point for the lowercase form isU+0138 ĸLATIN SMALL LETTER KRA (ĸ). If this is unavailable,q is substituted. The letter can be capitalized asKʼ, but it is not encoded separately as a single letter because it is very similar to the Latin capital letterK followed by an apostrophe,[1][2] preferably the modifier letter apostrophe,U+02BC ʼMODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE.[3] However, this case mapping is not implemented in Unicode.
In 1973, a spelling reform replaced kra in Greenlandic with the Latin small letterq (and its capital form, with the Latin capital letterQ).[4]
The capital form of the letterkra can be encoded as the sequence U+004B LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K followed by U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE.
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