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'''Ka with descender''' (Қ&nbsp;қ; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">''Қ&nbsp;қ''</span>) is a letter of the [[Cyrillic script]] used in a number of non-Slavic languages spoken on the territory of the former Soviet Union, including:
* the [[Turkic languages]] [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]], [[Uighur language|Uighur]], [[Uzbek language|Uzbek]] and several smaller languages ([[Karakalpak language|Karakalpak]], [[Shor language|Shor]] and [[Tofa language|Tofa]]), where it represents the [[voiceless uvular plosive]] {{IPA|/q/}}.
* [[Iranian languages]] such as [[Tajik language|Tajik]] and [[Ossetic language|Ossetic]] (before 1924; now superseded by the digraph {{angbr|Къ}}). Since {{IPA|/q/}} is represented by the letter [[ق|ق ''qāf'']] in the [[Arabic alphabet]], Қ is sometimes referred to as "Cyrillic Qaf".
* Eastern varieties of the [[Khanty language]], where it also represents {{IPA|/q/}}.
* the [[Abkhaz language]] where it represents the [[voiceless velar plosive]] {{IPA|/k/}}. (The [[Ka (Cyrillic)|Cyrillic letter Ka]] (К&nbsp;к) is used to represent {{IPA|/kʼ/}}.) 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 [[K with descender|Latin letter K with descender]] (Ⱪ&nbsp;ⱪ).

Its [[ISO 9]] transliteration is {{angbr|{{Transl|ab|ISO|ķ}}}} ({{angbr|k}} with [[cedilla]]), and is so transliterated for [[Abkhaz alphabet|Abkhaz]], while the common [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]] and [[Uzbek language|Uzbek]] romanization is {{angbr|q}}.

==Computing codes==

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|049B|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter<br />Ka with Descender
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==See also==
Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound {{IPA|/q/}}:
*Ӄ ӄ : [[Ka with hook|Cyrillic letter Ka with hook]]
*Ҡ ҡ : [[Bashkir Qa|Cyrillic letter Bashkir Qa]]
*Ԛ ԛ : [[Qa (Cyrillic)|Cyrillic letter Qa]]
*Ԟ ԟ : [[Aleut Ka|Cyrillic letter Aleut Ka]]
*[[Cyrillic characters in Unicode]]


[[Category:Kazakh language]]
[[Category:Uzbek language]]
[[Category:Uyghur language]]
[[Category:Tajik language]]


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