Ka_with_ascender

Ka with ascender

Ka with ascender

Cyrillic letter


Ka with ascender (k, italics: k) 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.
Kabardian alphabet of the abecedary of Tambiev 1906.
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

Sources

  • Radloff, W. (1893–1911). Опыт словаря тюркских наречий (in Russian and German). Vol. 1–4. Saint-Petersbourg: Императорской Академии Наук.
  • Тамбиев, Паго Измаилович (1906). Кабардинская азбука (in Russian). Тифлис: Типография Канцелярии Наместника Его Императорского Величества на Кавказе. Tambiev1906.

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