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Qa (Cyrillic)
Cyrillic letter used for /q/ in Kurdish From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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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.[citation needed]
The letter was also used in the scrapped version of the Azerbaijani alphabet.[citation needed] It was, however, eliminated and replaced by Ҝ in Dagestan.
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Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound /q/:
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