q

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qU+0071,q
LATIN SMALL LETTER Q
←p
[U+0070] 		Basic Latin r→
[U+0072]
Character variations
ｑU+FF51,ｑ
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER Q
←ｐ
[U+FF50] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｒ→
[U+FF52]
Some typefaces have a hook-tailedq.This is especially common in children's books.
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Albanian•Azerbaijani•Basque•Blin•Dutch•Estonian•Finnish•French•Gothic•Greenlandic•Heiltsuk•Hungarian•Ido•Indonesian•Inupiaq•Italian•Kankanaey•Kâte•Kwak'wala•Latin•Lushootseed•Malay•Maltese•Mam•Norwegian•Portuguese•Romani•Romanian•Spanish•Tagalog•Zulu
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Translingual

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EnglishWikipediahas an article on:
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q(upper caseQ)

  1. The seventeenth letter of thebasic modern Latin Alpha bet.

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Pronunciation

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  • Pronunciation of IPA[qɑː, ɑqqɑː]with the sound[q]:(file)

Symbol

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EnglishWikipediahas an article on:
Wikipedia

q

  1. Abbreviationofquecto-.
  2. (IPA,NAPA)voicelessuvularplosive.
    (superscript⟨𐞥⟩)– see⟨𐞥⟩.
  3. (physics)electricalcharge
  4. (physics)heat
  5. (fluid dynamics)dynamic pressure

Synonyms

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  • (electrical charge):Q
  • (heat):Q
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  • Letter styles
  • Uppercase and lowercase versions of , in normal and italic type
    Uppercase and lowercase versions of,in normal and italic type
  • Uppercase and lowercase Q in Fraktur
    Uppercase and lowercaseQinFraktur

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Other representations of Q:

English

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Etymology 1

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Letter

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q(lower case,upper caseQ,pluralqsorq's)

  1. The seventeenthletterof the EnglishAlpha bet,calledcueand written in theLatin script.
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The name of this letter is spelledcueor formerlycu.

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Number

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q(lower case,upper caseQ)

  1. Theordinalnumberseventeenth,derived from thisletterof the EnglishAlpha bet,calledcueand written in theLatin script.

Etymology 2

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Abbreviation.

Noun

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q(pluralq's)

  1. (athletics)Abbreviationofnon-automaticqualification:indicates anathletewho qualifies to the next round either by time as afastest loser(intrack events) or by position without achieving the qualifying target (infield events).
    Coordinate term:Q(“automatic qualification”)
  2. Abbreviationofquestion.
    Alternative form:Q
    • 2020August 19, @BRITs,Twitter‎[1]:
      We can't BELIEVE it's been #9YearsofLittleMix?! Aside from the girls slaying every #BRITs look they've had, what's your favemem?(we know it's a hardq!) 👀💖
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Etymology 3

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FromLatinquaque(“every”).

Determiner

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q

  2. (medicine)Each,every(with a time interval).
    Alternative form:Q
    175 mg/m2q3 wks―175 mg/m2everythree weeks
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Etymology 4

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q

  1. (stenoscript)the sound sequence /ŋk/, /kw/ or /kjuː/.

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Albanian

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q(upper caseQ)

  1. The twenty-thirdletterof the AlbanianAlpha bet,written in theLatin script.

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Azerbaijani

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qlower case(upper caseQ)

  1. The seventeenthletterof the AzerbaijaniAlpha bet,written in theLatin script.

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Basque

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q(lower case,upper caseQ)

  1. The eighteenthletterof the BasqueAlpha bet,calledkuand written in theLatin script.

Usage notes

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  • Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

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Blin

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q(uppercaseQ)

  1. Aletterof theBilenLatin Alpha bet.

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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q(lower case,upper caseQ)

  1. The seventeenthletterof the DutchAlpha bet,written in theLatin script.

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  • Previous letter:p
  • Next letter:r

Estonian

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EstonianWikipediahas an article on:
Wikipediaet

Pronunciation

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q(lower case,upper caseQ)

  1. The seventeenthletterof the EstonianAlpha bet,calledkuuand written in theLatin script.

Usage notes

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  • Used only in foreign words.

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Finnish

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Etymology

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The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. Seethe Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information,andqfor information on the development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio(letter name);“kuu”:(file)

Letter

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q(lower case,upper caseQ)

  1. The seventeenthletterof the FinnishAlpha bet,calledkuuand written in theLatin script.

Usage notes

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  • Used only in loanwords. In more established loanwordsquis replaced withkv.

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French

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q(lower case,upper caseQ)

  1. The seventeenthletterof the FrenchAlpha bet,written in theLatin script.

Noun

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qm(pluralq)

  1. Abbreviationofquintal.

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  • Previous letter:p
  • Next letter:r

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Gothic

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Romanization

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q

  1. Romanization of𐌵

Greenlandic

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Pronunciation

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IPA(key):/q/

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q

  1. The thirteenthletterof the GreenlandicAlpha bet,written in theLatin script.

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Heiltsuk

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q(upper caseQ)

  1. Aletterof the HeiltsukAlpha bet,written in theLatin script.

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Hungarian

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q(lower case,upper caseQ)

  1. A letter of the extended HungarianAlpha bet,calledkúand written in theLatin script.

Usage notes

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It is a symbol of the (somewhat dated) unit ofmázsa(100kilosor aquintal,approx. twohundredweight).

It occurs in the following terms, along with their derivations and compounds:becquerel,(archaic spelling:boutique→)butik,cinquecento,conditio sine qua non,denique,donquijoték(plural),IQ,kvadorquad,quantum satis,quaestor,quaestura,quattrocento,quisling,quodlibet,QR-kód,squash,andtequila.

Also in some foreign proper names chiefly from Latin, French, and Spanish, includingAquincum,Aquinói Szent Tamás(Thomas Aquinas),Don Quijote,Dunkerque,García Márquez,Jacques Offenbach,Martinique,Montesquieu,Quartier Latin,Québec,Quintilianus,Quintus Pontius Pilatus,Quito,Torquato Tasso,andVelázquez.

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative q q-k
accusative q-t q-kat
dative q-nak q-knak
instrumental q-val q-kkal
causal-final q-ért q-kért
translative q-vá q-kká
terminative q-ig q-kig
essive-formal q-ként q-kként
essive-modal — —
inessive q-ban q-kban
superessive q-n q-kon
adessive q-nál q-knál
illative q-ba q-kba
sublative q-ra q-kra
allative q-hoz q-khoz
elative q-ból q-kból
delative q-ról q-król
ablative q-tól q-któl
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		q-é q-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		q-éi q-kéi
Possessive formsofq
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. q-m q-im
2nd person sing. q-d q-id
3rd person sing. q-ja q-i
1st person plural q-nk q-ink
2nd person plural q-tok q-itok
3rd person plural q-juk q-ik

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Further reading

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  • qinBárczi, GézaandLászló Országh.A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára( “The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.:ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN

Ido

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Pronunciation

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  • (context pronunciation, always found before the letterU)IPA(key):/kw/
  • (letter name)IPA(key):/kwe/

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q(upper caseQ)

  1. The seventeenthletterof the IdoAlpha bet,written in theLatin script.

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Indonesian

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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  • (context pronunciation)IPA(key):/k/
  • (letter name)IPA(key):/ki/

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q(upper caseQ)

  1. The seventeenthletterof the IndonesianAlpha bet,written in theLatin script.
Alternative forms
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Etymology 2

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From similarity pronunciation ofqin English and-kuin Indonesian.

Pronoun

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q

  1. (text messaging,slang)Abbreviationofaku.

Inupiaq

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Pronunciation

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  1. IPA(key):/q/

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q(upper caseQ)

  1. Aletterof the InupiaqAlpha bet,written in theLatin script.

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • (letter name)IPA(key):/ˈku/
  • (phonemic realization)IPA(key):/kw/

Letter

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qform(invariable,lower case,upper caseQ)

  1. The fifteenthletterof the ItalianAlpha bet,calledcuand written in theLatin script.

Kankanaey

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Etymology

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BorrowedfromTagalogq.Letter pronunciation is influenced byEnglishq.

Pronunciation

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  • (letter name)IPA(key):/ˈkju/[ˈk̠ju]
  • (phoneme)IPA(key):/k/[k̠̚]

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q(lower case,upper caseQ)

  1. The nineteenthletterof the KankanaeyAlpha bet,calledkyuand written in theLatin script.

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References

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  • Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (2016)Ortograpiya di Kankanaëy[Kankanaey Orthography]‎[2](in Kankanaey and Tagalog),→ISBN,pages10-11

Kâte

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q

  1. The voiceless stop/k͡p/,vs. curly-tail⟨ɋ⟩,which is voiced/ɡ͡b/.

Kwak'wala

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Alternative forms

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  • ⟨ḵ⟩in Uʼmista orthography (standard Kwakʼwala)

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q(upper caseQ)

  1. (Liqʼwala dialect)Aletterof the Kwak'walaAlpha bet,written in theLatin script.

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Latin

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q

  1. A letter of the Latin Alpha bet.

Lushootseed

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Pronunciation

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q

  1. The thirty-firstletterof theLushootseedAlpha bet.

Malay

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Letter

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q(lower case,upper caseQ)

  1. The seventeenthletterof the MalayAlpha bet,written in theLatin script.

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Maltese

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Etymology

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ContinuesArabicق(q).

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q(upper caseQ)

  1. The twenty-firstletterof the MalteseAlpha bet,written in theLatin script.

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Mam

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Pronunciation

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q(uppercaseQ)

  1. Aletterof theMamAlpha bet.

Norwegian

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Pronunciation

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q

  1. The seventeenthletterof the NorwegianAlpha bet,written in theLatin script.

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  • Rare in written Norwegian, only used in a limited number of loanwords.

Portuguese

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Etymology 1

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q(lower case,upper caseQ)

  1. The seventeenthletterof the PortugueseAlpha bet,written in theLatin script.
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Etymology 2

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q

  1. (Internetslang,text messaging)Abbreviationofque.
  2. (Internetslang,text messaging)Abbreviationofquê(“what”).

Romani

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key):(after n)/ɡ/,(after any other letter)/k/

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q(lower case,upper caseQ)

  1. (International Standard)Used to represent the dative and genitive cases.

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References

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  • Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “-q-”,inニューエクスプレス ロマ ( ジプシー ) ngữ[New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha,→ISBN,page15

Romanian

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q(lower case,upper caseQ)

  1. The twentiethletterof the RomanianAlpha bet,calledchiuand written in theLatin script.

Usage notes

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  • Used chiefly in loanwords.
  • Thedigraphquis pronounced/kw/,/kv/,or/kʲ/.

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Spanish

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Etymology 1

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q(lower case,upper caseQ)

  1. The eighteenthletterof the SpanishAlpha bet,written in theLatin script.

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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q

  1. (Internetslang,text messaging)Abbreviationofque(“that”).
    Hay un policía en la rutaqmás uso.―There's a cop on the routethatI use the most.
  2. (Internetslang,text messaging)Abbreviationofqué(“what”).
    qpasó?―whathappened?

Tagalog

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Etymology

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BorrowedfromSpanishq.Each pronunciation has a different source:

  • Filipino Alpha bet pronunciation is influenced byEnglishq.
  • Abecedario pronunciation is fromSpanishq.

Pronunciation

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  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key):/ˈkju/[ˈkju](letter name, Filipino Alpha bet)
    • IPA(key):/ˈku/[ˈku](letter name, Abecedario)
    • IPA(key):/k/[k](phoneme, usually together with u)
    • IPA(key):/ˈku/[ˈku](phoneme, before u, English unadapted loanwords)

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q(lower case,upper caseQ,Baybayin spellingᜃ᜔ᜌᜓ)

  1. The nineteenthletterof the TagalogAlpha bet(theFilipino Alpha bet), calledkyuand written in theLatin script.

Usage notes

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  • This letter is mostly used only in proper nouns, unadapted loanwords, or Spanish-based spellings.

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Letter

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q(lower case,upper caseQ,Baybayin spellingᜃᜓ)

  1. (historical)The twentiethletterof the TagalogAlpha bet(theAbecedario), calledcuand written in theLatin script.

Further reading

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  • “q”,inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph,Manila,2018

Zulu

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Letter

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q(lower case,upper caseQ)

  1. The seventeenthletterof the ZuluAlpha bet,written in theLatin script.

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