Aleut Ka

Aleut Ka
Ԟ ԟ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	/q/
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Aleut Ka (Ԟ ԟ; italics: Ԟ ԟ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is formed from the Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) by adding a stroke to the upper diagonal arm.^[1]

Aleut Ka was used in the alphabet of the Aleut language in the 19th century, where it represented the voiceless uvular plosive /q/ (like the ‘k’ in ‘kite’ but uvular). During the revival of the Aleut Cyrillic alphabet in the 1980s it has been replaced by the Ka with hook.

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ԟ		ԟ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ALEUT KA		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ALEUT KA
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1310	U+051E	1311	U+051F
UTF-8	212 158	D4 9E	212 159	D4 9F
Numeric character reference	Ԟ	Ԟ	ԟ	ԟ

See also

Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound /q/:

• Қ қ : Cyrillic letter Ka with descender
• Ӄ ӄ : Cyrillic letter Ka with hook
• Ҡ ҡ : Cyrillic letter Bashkir Qa
• Ԛ ԛ : Cyrillic letter Qa
• Cyrillic characters in Unicode

References

1. "Aleut primer" (PDF). www.asna.ca. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2026-02-13.