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Ka with ascender

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Ka with ascender
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic

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

Usage

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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

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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

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Notes and references

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Sources

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  • 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.