Kra (letter)
Kra (uppercase: Kʼ, lowercase: ĸ) is a glyph formerly used to write Greenlandic, and which is now only found in Inuttitut, a dialect of Inuktitut. It is visually similar to a Latin small capital letter ᴋ, a Greek letter κ (kappa), or a Cyrillic small letter к (ka).
| Kra (letter) | |
|---|---|
| Κʼ ĸ | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Type | alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Inuttitut |
| Sound values | [q] |
| In Unicode | U+0138 |
| History | |
| Transliterations | Q q |
It is used to denote the sound written as [q] in the International Phonetic Alphabet (the voiceless uvular plosive). For collation purposes, it is therefore considered to be a type of ⟨q⟩, rather than a type of ⟨k⟩, and should sort near ⟨q⟩.
Its Unicode code point for the lowercase form is U+0138 ĸ LATIN SMALL LETTER KRA (ĸ). If this is unavailable, ⟨q⟩ is substituted. The letter can be capitalized as ⟨Κʼ⟩, but it is not encoded separately as a single letter because it is very similar to the Latin capital letter ⟨K⟩ followed by an apostrophe,[1][2] preferably the modifier letter apostrophe, U+02BC ʼ MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE.[3] However, this case mapping is not implemented in Unicode.
In 1973, a spelling reform replaced kra in Greenlandic with the more standard Latin letter ⟨Q, q⟩.[4]
Gallery
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⟨ĸ⟩ in a Greenlandic–Danish dictionary from 1926
"Avangnâmioĸ" in all-caps, title of Greenlandic periodical from 1957, with the uppercase of ĸ as Kʼ.
Kra, small caps K (if present), and Cyrillic small к, using the fonts: Arial, Times New Roman, Doulos SIL, Cambria, Linux Libertine, Andron Mega Corpus, Adobe Minion Pro, Courier New, and Consolas. Second row: italics, using the same fonts.
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References
[edit]- ↑ Everson, Michael (1998-09-12). "Responses to NCITS/L2 and Unicode Consortium comments on numerous proposals" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-06-12. Retrieved 2016-08-21.
- ↑ Everson, Michael (1998-05-25). "Additional Latin characters for the UCS" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-06-12. Retrieved 2016-08-21.
- ↑ 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 letter kra can be encoded as the sequence U+004B LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K followed by U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE.
- ↑ Everson, Michael. "Greenlandic alphabet" (PDF). Evertype. Retrieved 2009-06-23. 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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