Cyrillic letter used for /q/ in Kurdish
Cyrillic letter
Cyrillic letter Qa Phonetic usage: /q/ , formerly also /qʼ/ Derived from: Latin letter Q
Qa (Ԛ ԛ; italics: Ԛ ԛ ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script . Its form is based on the Latin letter Q (Q q). Depending on the font, the uppercase form can look like a reversed Cyrillic letter Р , with the lowercase form also resembling a reversed Cyrillic letter Р .
Qa is used in the alphabet of the Kurdish language , where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive /q/ . It was also used to represent /q’/ , the uvular ejective stop (now represented by Ҟ ҟ ), in the Translation Committee's Abkhaz alphabet ,[1] published around the turn of the 20th century, and to represent /q/ in three old Ossetian alphabets (now represented by Хь хъ).
This character appeared in newspapers and articles such as 1955's Кӧрдо .[citation needed ]
The letter was also used in the scrapped version of the Azerbaijani alphabet .[citation needed ] It was, however, eliminated and replaced by Ҝ in Dagestan .
Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound /q/ :