Ka with descender
Ka with descender, is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in a number of non-Slavic languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union, including:
- the Turkic languages Kazakh, Uyghur, Uzbek and several smaller languages, where it represents the voiceless [uvular plosive].
- Iranian languages such as Tajik and, before 1924, Ossetic. Since is represented by the letter ق qāf in the Arabic alphabet, Қ is sometimes referred to as "Cyrillic Qaf".
- Eastern varieties of the Khanty language, where it also represents.
- the Abkhaz language, where it represents the aspirated voiceless [velar plosive]. |Cyrillic letter Ka] 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 Latin letter K with descender.