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Kha (Cyrillic)

Kha (Cyrillic)

Letter in the Cyrillic script


Kha, Khe, Chi or Ha х; italics: Х х) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It looks the same as the Latin letter X (X x X x), in both uppercase and lowercase, both roman and italic forms, and was derived from the Greek letter Chi, which also bears a resemblance to both the Latin X and Kha.[1]

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Kha, from Elisabeth Boehm's alphabet book

It commonly represents the voiceless velar fricative /x/, similar to how some Scottish speakers pronounce the ch in “loch”, but has different pronunciations in different languages.

Kha is romanised as kh for Russian, Ukrainian, Mongolian, and Tajik, and as ch for Belarusian, while being romanised as h for Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Kazakh. It is also romanised as j for Spanish.

History

The Cyrillic letter Kha was derived from the Greek letter Chi χ).

The name of Kha in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was хѣръ (xěrŭ).

In the Cyrillic numeral system, Kha has a value of 600.

Usage

Russian

Kha is the twenty-third letter of the Russian alphabet. It represents the voiceless velar fricative /x/ unless it is before a palatalizing vowel, when it represents /xʲ/.

Ossetian

Kha represents the voiceless uvular fricative /χ/ in Ossetian. The digraph ⟨хъ⟩ represents the voiceless uvular plosive /q/.

Belarusian

Kha is also an alternative transliteration of the letter خ Ḫāʼ in the Arabic alphabet. This was used in Belarusian Arabic script, corresponding to the above Cyrillic letter.

Ukrainian

Kha is the twenty-sixth letter of the Ukrainian alphabet. It represents the voiceless velar fricative /x/

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References

  1. Aleksandr Chayanov and Russian Berlin.
  • The dictionary definition of Х at Wiktionary
  • The dictionary definition of х at Wiktionary

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