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 . Iranian languages such as Tajik and, before 1924, Ossetic (now superseded by the digraph ). Since is represented by the letter ق qāf in the Arabic alphabet, Қ is sometimes referred to as "Cyrillic Qaf". Eastern varieties of the Khanty language, where it also represents . the Abkhaz language, where it represents the aspirated voiceless velar plosive . (The Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) is used to represent the ejective .) It was introduced in 1905 for the spelling of Abkhaz. From 1928 to 1938, Abkhaz was spelled with the Latin alphabet, and the corresponding letter was the Latin letter K with descender (Ⱪ ⱪ). the Chukchi language in Eastern Siberia, where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive .
Its ISO 9 transliteration is (k with cedilla), and this is the standard transliteration for Abkhaz and Chukchi Қ. The common Kazakh and Uzbek Romanization is .
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See also Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound : Ӄ ӄ : Cyrillic letter Ka with hook Ҡ ҡ : Cyrillic letter Bashkir Qa Ԛ ԛ : Cyrillic letter Qa Ԟ ԟ : Cyrillic letter Aleut Ka Ҟ ҟ : Cyrillic Letter Ka with stroke Cyrillic characters in Unicode
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