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.
Usage
[edit]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]
![](Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Radlov_alphabet_1893.png/500px-Radlov_alphabet_1893.png)
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![](Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Uslar-Dargwa_alphabet.jpg/220px-Uslar-Dargwa_alphabet.jpg)
Computing codes
[edit]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
[edit]- Қ (ka with descender)
- Ќ (kje)
- Kabardian language
- Cyrillic script
Notes and references
[edit]Sources
[edit]- 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.