Kra (uppercase: Kʼ, lowercase: ĸ) is a glyph formerly used to write Greenlandic, and which is now only found in Inuttitut, a dialect of Inuktitut. It is visually similar to a Latin small capital letter ᴋ, a Greek letter κ (kappa), or a Cyrillic small letter к (ka).It is used to denote the sound written as in the International Phonetic Alphabet (the voiceless uvular plosive). For collation purposes, it is therefore considered to be a type of , rather than a type of , and should sort near .
Its Unicode code point for the lowercase form is . If this is unavailable, is substituted. The letter can be capitalized as , but it is not encoded separately as a single letter because it is very similar to the Latin capital letter followed by an apostrophe, preferably the modifier letter apostrophe, . However, this case mapping is not implemented in Unicode.
In 1973, a spelling reform replaced kra in Greenlandic with the more standard Latin letter . Note that in the Greenlandic alphabet PDF from Evertype, the apostrophe-like symbol is represented by the symbol of U+2018, LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK. However Michael Everson uses the shape of the right single quotation mark or modifier letter apostrophe in other documents (e.g. Everson 1998).
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