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  Cursive script 'q' and capital 'Q' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style
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Q (named cue /ˈkjuː/[1]) is the seventeent letter o the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
History[eedit | eedit soorce]
| Egyptian hieroglyph wj |
Phoenician qoph |
Etruscan Q |
Greek Qoppa | ||
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The Semitic soond value o Qôp (aiblins oreeginally qaw, "cord o wool", an possibly based on an Egyptian hieroglyph) wis /q/ (voiceless uvular stop), a soond common tae Semitic leids, but nae foond in Inglis or maist Indo-European anes. In Greek, this sign as Qoppa Ϙ probably came tae represent several labialized velar stops, amang them /kʷ/ an /kʷʰ/. As a result o later soond shifts, thir soonds in Greek chynged tae /p/ an /pʰ/ respectively. Tharefore, Qoppa wis transfairmed intae twa letters: Qoppa, which stuid for a nummer anly, an Phi Φ which stuid for the aspiratit soond /pʰ/ that came tae be pronoonced /f/ in Modren Greek.
In the earliest Latin inscriptions, the letters C, K an Q wur aw uised tae represent the twa soonds /k/ an /ɡ/, which wur nae differentiatit in writin. O thir, Q wis uised afore a roondit vowel (e.g. ⟨EQO⟩ 'ego'), K afore /a/, an C elsewhaur. Later, the uise o C (an its variant G) replaced maist uisages o K an Q: Q survivit anly tae represent /k/ when immediately follaeed bi a /w/ soond.[2] The Etruscans uised Q in conjunction wi V tae represent /kʷ/
Relatit letters an ither similar characters[eedit | eedit soorce]
- Q̵ q̵ : Latin letter Q wi stroke
- ʠ : Latin letter Q wi huik
- Ɋ ɋ : Latin letter Q wi huik tail
- Ԛ ԛ : Cyrillic letter Qa
- Ќ, ќ : Cyrillic letter Kje
- Қ қ : Cyrillic letter Ka wi descender
Computin codes[eedit | eedit soorce]
| Character | Q | q | ||
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| Unicode name | LATIN CAIPITAL LETTER Q | LATIN SMAA LETTER Q | ||
| Encodins | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 81 | U+0051 | 113 | U+0071 |
| UTF-8 | 81 | 51 | 113 | 71 |
| Numeric chairacter reference | Q | Q | q | q |
| EBCDIC faimily | 216 0 | D8 | 152 0 | 98 |
| ASCII 1 | 81 0 | 51 | 113 0 | 71 |
- 1 An aa for encodins based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodins.
Ither representations[eedit | eedit soorce]
| NATO phonetic | Morse code |
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| Seegnal banner | Banner semaphore | American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin) | Braille dots-12345 |
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ "Q" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "que," op. cit.
- ↑ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995). New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (illustrated ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 21. ISBN 0-19-508345-8.
Freemit airtins[eedit | eedit soorce]
Media relatit tae Q at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionar defineetion o Q at Wiktionary- The dictionar defineetion o q at Wiktionary
| Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | ||
Letter Q with diacritics
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