Qa (Cyrillic)
| Qa | |
|---|---|
| Ԛ ԛ | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [q], formerly also [qʼ] |
| History | |
| Development | Q q
|
Qa (Ԛ ԛ; italics: Ԛ ԛ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is based on the Latin letter Q (Q q). The lowercase form can look like a reversed Cyrillic letter Р, and the uppercase as well depending on font.
Qa is used in the Cyrillic alphabet of the Kurdish language, where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive /q/. It was also used to represent /q’/, the uvular ejective stop (now represented by Ҟ ҟ), in the Translation Committee's Abkhaz alphabet,[1] published around the turn of the 20th century, and to represent /q/ in three old Ossetian alphabets (now represented by Хь хъ).
This character appeared in newspapers and articles such as 1955's Кӧрдо or Kurdo.
The letter was also used in the scrapped version of the Azerbaijani alphabet. It was, however, eliminated and replaced by Ҝ in Dagestan.
Computing codes
| Preview | Ԛ | ԛ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
See also
Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound /q/:
- Қ қ : Cyrillic letter Ka with descender
- Ӄ ӄ : Cyrillic letter Ka with hook
- Ҡ ҡ : Cyrillic letter Bashkir Qa
- Ԟ ԟ : Cyrillic letter Aleut Ka
- Cyrillic characters in Unicode
References
- ^ Everson, M; Birnbaum, D; Cleminson, R; Derzhanski, I; Dorosh, V; Kryukov, A; Paliga, S; Ruppel, K (2007). "Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS" (PDF). Unicode.
External links
- Everson, Michael; et al. (2007-03-21). "Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-04-29.