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Ka (К к; italics: ''К к'') is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiceless velar plosive /k/, like the pronunciation of ⟨k⟩ in "king" or "kick".


History

The Cyrillic letter Ka was derived from the Greek letter Kappa (Κ κ). In the
Early Cyrillic alphabet The Early Cyrillic alphabet, also called classical Cyrillic or paleo-Cyrillic, is a writing system that was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the late 9th century on the basis of the Greek alphabet for the Slavic people living ...
its name was (''kako''), meaning "as". In the
Cyrillic numeral system Cyrillic numerals are a numeral system derived from the Cyrillic script, developed in the First Bulgarian Empire in the late 10th century. It was used in the First Bulgarian Empire and by South and East Slavic peoples. The system was used in ...
, Ka had a value of 20.


Form

The Cyrillic letter Ka looks very similar, and corresponds to the Latin letter K. In many fonts, Cyrillic Ka is differentiated from its Latin and Greek counterparts by drawing one or both of its diagonal spurs with curved instead of straight. Also in some fonts the lowercase form of Ka has the vertical bar elongated above
x-height upright 2.0, alt=A diagram showing the line terms used in typography In typography, the x-height, or corpus size, is the distance between the baseline and the mean line of lowercase letters in a typeface. Typically, this is the height of the let ...
, resembling the Latin lowercase k.


Usage

In
Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries * Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and p ...
, the letter Ka represents the plain
voiceless velar plosive The voiceless velar plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in almost all spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is k. The sound is a ver ...
or the palatalized one ; for example, the word ''короткий'' (''"short"'') contains both the kinds: . The palatalized variant is pronounced when the following letter in the word is '' ь'', '' е'', '' ё'', '' и'', '' ю'', or '' я''. In Macedonian it always represents the sound . It also represents the sound, the sound, and the sound.


Related letters and other similar characters

*Κ κ/ : Greek letter Kappa *K k : Latin letter K *Q q : Latin letter Q *C c : Latin letter C *X x : Latin letter X


Computing codes


See also

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Ka with descender Ka with descender (Қ қ; italics: ) 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, Uighur, Uzbek and several smalle ...
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Ka with hook Ka with hook (Ӄ ӄ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is formed from the Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) by the addition of a hook. Ka with hook is widely used in the alphabets of Siberia and the Russian Far East: Chukch ...
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Ka with stroke Ka with stroke (Ҟ ҟ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is formed from the Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) by adding a stroke through the upper part of the vertical stem of the letter. Ka with stroke is used in the alphab ...
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Ka with vertical stroke Ka with vertical stroke (Ҝ ҝ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) by the addition of a stroke through the short horizontal bar in the centre of the letter. Ka with ve ...
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Aleut Ka Aleut Ka (Ԟ ԟ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is formed from the Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) by adding a stroke to the upper diagonal arm. Aleut Ka was used in the alphabet of the Aleut language in the 19th century ...
* Bashkir Ka *
Kje Kje (Ќ ќ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, used only in the Macedonian alphabet, where it represents the voiceless palatal plosive , or the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate . Kje is the 24th letter in this alphabet. It is ...


External links

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On the Aorists in -κα
By R. G. Latham, Esq., M.D.


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