Kra (letter)
Kra(Kʼ / ĸ) is aglyphformerly used to write theKalaallisut language(also known as Greenlandic) ofGreenlandand is now only found inInuttitut,a distinctInuktitutdialect.It is visually similar to aLatinsmall capitalletterK,aGreekletter Kappa:κ,or aCyrillicsmall letter Ka: к.
It is used to denote the sound written as[q]in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet(thevoiceless uvular plosive). Forcollationpurposes, it is therefore considered to be a type ofq,rather than a type ofk,and should sort nearq.
Its Unicode code point for the lowercase form isU+0138ĸLATIN SMALL LETTER KRA(ĸ). If this is unavailable,qis substituted. The letter can be capitalized asKʼ,but it is not encoded separately as a single letter because it is very similar to the Latin capital letterKfollowed by an apostrophe,[1][2]preferably the modifier letter apostrophe,U+02BCʼMODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE.[3]
In 1973, a spelling reform replaced kra in Greenlandic with the Latin small letterq(and its capital form, with the Latin capital letterQ).[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^Everson, Michael (1998-09-12)."Responses to NCITS/L2 and Unicode Consortium comments on numerous proposals"(PDF).
- ^Everson, Michael (1998-05-25)."Additional Latin characters for the UCS"(PDF).
- ^Aliprand, Joan M. (2002-04-21)."Status of Mapping between Characters of ISO 5426-2 and ISO/IEC 10646-1 (UCS)"(PDF).
The capital form of the letterkracan be encoded as the sequence U+004B LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K followed by U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE.
- ^Everson, Michael."Greenlandic alphabet"(PDF).Evertype.Retrieved2009-06-23. Note that in the Greenlandic alphabet PDF from Evertype, the apostrophe-like symbol is represented by the symbol of U+2018, LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK. However Michael Everson uses the shape of the right single quotation mark or modifier letter apostrophe in other documents (e.g. Everson 1998).
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