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Aleut Ka

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Cyrillic letter
Aleut Ka
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Sound values/q/
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.


Aleut Ka (Ԟ ԟ; italics: Ԟ ԟ) 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, where it represented the voiceless uvular plosive /q/ (like the ‘k’ in ‘kite’ but uvular). During the revival of the Aleut Cyrillic alphabet in the 1980s it has been replaced by the Ka with hook.

Computing codes

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Character information
Preview Ԟ ԟ
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
ALEUT KA
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
ALEUT KA
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 1310 U+051E 1311 U+051F
UTF-8 212 158 D4 9E 212 159 D4 9F
Numeric character reference Ԟ Ԟ ԟ ԟ

See also

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Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound /q/: