Kra (letter)

Kra (?) is a character once used when writing the Kalaallisut language spoken in Greenland (although a spelling reform has replaced it with ). It is visually similar to a Latin small capital letter K and the Cyrillic letter ?. Unusually for a Latin letter, it exists only in lower case form (like German ß).

Related Topics:
Kalaallisut language - Greenland - Latin - Small capital - K - Cyrillic - ? - Lower case - ß

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It is used to denote the sound written as 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'.

Related Topics:
International Phonetic Alphabet - Voiceless uvular plosive - Collation

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Its Unicode code point is decimal 312 and hexadecimal U+0138. If this is unavailable, 'q' is substituted.

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