Ka with ascender

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Ka with ascender
Cyrillic small letter ka with ascender.svg
Usage
Writing system Cyrillic
Type Alphabetic

Ka with ascender ( Cyrillic small letter ka with ascender.svg ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script which was used in Kabardian at the start of the 20th century.

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Usage

In turkology, Vasily Radlov used ka with ascender k in the mixed alphabet (a mix of Latin and Cyrillic) in his dictionary of Turkic language dialects in 4 volumes published between 1893 and 1911. [1]

Alphabet in Radlov 1893. Radlov alphabet 1893.png
Alphabet in Radlov 1893.
Kabardian alphabet of the abecedary of Tambiev 1906. Tambiev 1906, Kabardinskaia azbuka, page 14.png
Kabardian alphabet of the abecedary of Tambiev 1906.
1892 Dargwa alphabet Uslar-Dargwa alphabet.jpg
1892 Dargwa alphabet

Computing codes

This letter does not have any computing codes, most notably in Unicode. It is possible to approximate this letter with the Latin letter K in the fonts where it looks different from the Cyrillic letter Ka and k.

See also

Notes and references

  1. Radloff 1893–1911.

Sources